Together with OPERAS, OASPA is hosting a series of three workshops on business models for open access books targeted specifically at small and medium-sized academic book publishers. These workshops are part of the OPERAS-P project work package 6 (Innovation), looking into innovative, non-bpc, business models to create a sustainable infrastructure for open access book publishing… Read full article >
OASPA Webinar: Gaining Insights into Global OA eBook Usage – Questions answered
Following on from the recent webinar entitled Analyzing Open – Gaining Insights into Global OA eBook Usage, we asked our speakers to respond to the unanswered questions posed by attendees via the webinar chat. You can find those questions and answers below. This may be useful for those who missed it or wish to share… Read full article >
Webinar: Analyzing Open – Gaining Insights into Global OA eBook Usage
As well as the recording above, please see this post for speakers’ answers to attendee questions. Presenters’ slides: Cameron Neylon, Ros Pyne, Lara Speicher and Christina Drummond. We are pleased to announce the next OASPA webinar which will explore questions around the effects of open access on books and how OA ebook usage… Read full article >
OASPA Feedback on Plan S Implementation Guidance
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 >
Spotlight on Open Access Books at COASP 2012
Guest Blog: Janneke Adema, Directory of Open Access Books For the first time, 2012 saw the 4th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP) feature an afternoon of sessions entirely dedicated to Open Access books. In his introduction, OAPEN’s Eelco Ferwerda highlighted that with this year’s milestones – the launch of the Directory of Open… Read full article >