As a community of 140 organisations who are committed to the advancement of open access publishing and who represent the majority of the of the OA journal output in the DOAJ*, OASPA is of course very supportive of the intentions of Plan S, as we commented previously at the beginning of October. A coordinated approach… Read full article >
OASPA Members Show Further Growth of Fully OA Journals Using a CC-BY License in 2015 Data
Data for the above chart can be downloaded here: OASPA Members CC-BY Growth_Data to 2015_CC0 A total of 707,798 articles were published with the CC-BY license in open access-only journals by members of OASPA during the period shown above, with 160,955 of those being published in 2015. OASPA members were invited to share their… Read full article >
Invitation to OASPA members to shape use cases for attribution and re-use
Providing appropriate and accurate attribution for works that inform and inspire scholarship is core to Open Access. And, as the prevalence of particularly Creative Commons licenses grows, publishers have a valuable role to play in supporting our authors and readers in effectively navigating the complexities of whom to attribute, when, and how. OASPA has therefore… Read full article >
Nature Publishing Group Joins OASPA
OASPA is pleased to welcome Nature Publishing Group as a member of the Association. Last month NPG announced that Nature Communications will go open-access only, offering the CC BY 4.0 license by default. NPG also offers an open access option for 73 of their journals, with 38% of research articles published by NPG last year immediately open… Read full article >
Springer membership of OASPA is reinstated
As was explained in a statement on the OASPA blog in April 2014 (http://oaspa.org/statement-regarding-the-suspension-of-springers-membership-in-oaspa/), OASPA’s Membership Committee made the decision to place Springer’s membership under review as a result of concerns that were raised regarding the peer review policies of several of its conference proceedings. The concerns arose because of the publication of 16 (since… Read full article >