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 >
SAGE membership of OASPA is reinstated
As was explained in statement on the OASPA blog in October 2013 (http://oaspa.org/oaspas-second-statement-following-the-article-in-science-entitled-whos-afraid-of-peer-review/), OASPA’s Membership Committee made the decision to place SAGE Publication’s membership under review as a result of concerns that were raised regarding the peer review policies of one of its journals. These concerns were raised as part of an investigation that was… Read full article >
Conclusions from OASPA Membership Committee Investigation into MDPI
It came to our attention last month that the status of MDPI as a genuine open access publisher has recently been questioned. OASPA takes such concerns very seriously and adherence to the membership criteria (http://oaspa.org/membership/membership-criteria/) is essential for all of our members and new applicants. The OASPA Membership Committee has carried out a detailed investigation into the… Read full article >
Statement regarding Springer’s membership of OASPA being placed Under Review
In February, it was reported by Nature (http://www.nature.com/news/publishers-withdraw-more-than-120-gibberish-papers-1.14763) that around 120 fake articles had been published in apparently peer-reviewed conference proceedings. Springer, one of the affected publishers, which published 16 of these articles, is a member of OASPA. Given that the publication of these articles is evidence of a systematic problem with editorial processes, we… Read full article >