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 (https://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 >

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 >

The OASPA Board is pleased to welcome Brill as a member for 2014.  Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher spanning 20 subject disciplines. With offices in Leiden and Boston, Brill today publishes 200 journals and around 700 new books and reference works each year.  Brill open access… Read full article >

The OASPA Board is pleased to welcome Palgrave Macmillan as a full member of OASPA with voting privileges.  Based in the UK, Palgrave Macmillan is a global academic and business publisher for the Humanities and Social Sciences and is part of the wider Macmillan Group, representing an unbroken tradition of over 160 years of academic… Read full article >

OASPA believes that working together with applicants to our organization is the best way to raise standards and build relationships with new open access publishers emerging in the scholarly publishing community.  The route of entry into the organization, the membership application stage, remains key to the success of all activities that OASPA carries out and… Read full article >