Joint authors: Claire Redhead (Executive Director, OASPA) and Jennifer Gibson (Chair of OASPA Board of Directors; Executive Director, Dryad) At the end of this month, as the new OASPA Board’s annual term begins, Caroline Sutton will step down from the OASPA Board after 14 years of service. Caroline has been involved with OASPA since a… Read full article >
OASPA founds new organisation with future-proof governance and funding structure for the OA Switchboard
A neutral, independent intermediary enabling shared infrastructure, bringing transparency, efficiency and cost effectiveness to the open access ecosystem The OA Switchboard initiative is a not-for-profit collaboration between funders, institutions and to provide essential infrastructure, standards and back office services to achieve a breakthrough in the transformation of the market such that Open Access is supported… Read full article >
OASPA and the Initiative for Open Citations
One of the goals of OASPA is to support the transition to a world in which open access becomes the predominant mode of publication. As we have charted in the annual statistics on the growth of open content published using various Creative Commons licenses, steady progress is being made (see for example the most recent… Read full article >
Rate of growth for CC BY articles in fully-OA journals continues for OASPA members
Data for the above chart can be downloaded here: OASPA Members CC-BY Growth_Data to 2018_CC0 A total of 1,392,051 articles were published with the CC BY license in open access-only (fully-OA) journals by members of OASPA during the period 2000-2018, with 261,621 of those being published in 2018. OASPA members were invited to share their… Read full article >
Spotlight on the OASPA Board: Caroline Sutton
OASPA Board Members are appointed via an annual election process and serve for a term of three years, playing a vital role in OASPA’s work to support and represent the interests of Open Access journal and book globally. In the fourth of a series of interviews highlighting the important contributions of the Board, OASPA’s Events… Read full article >