Date: November 4, 2021 OASPA is pleased to announce our next webinar which will focus on the interface between openness and privacy. Open Access is part of a large movement in scholarly research toward openness, often captured in terms such as Open Science, Open Licenses, Open Data, and Open Metadata. The rights of researchers to… Read full article >
Developing a healthy and diverse OA market: Reflections
Earlier in the year we announced that OASPA was undertaking some work with a wider group of stakeholders to explore the nature of the open access market and the perspectives of different stakeholder groups, with a view to gaining a better understanding of the forces in play and a potential role for OASPA as an… Read full article >
Webinar – Researcher Focus 1: Researcher Needs, Common Values and Practices
As well as the recording above, please scroll down in this post for responses to some of the unanswered questions from attendees. Date: June 29, 2021 Time: 3 – 4.15 pm UK (2 – 3.15 pm UTC) Other timezones: 7.00 am Pacific Time, 9.00 am Central Time, 10.00 am Eastern… Read full article >
OA Switchboard initiative: progress report September 2020
The OA Switchboard is now a reality: the MVP (Minimum Viable Product), currently in its pilot phase, has delivered a neutral information exchange ‘hub’, streamlining the communication between funders, institutions and regarding OA publications. The OA Switchboard will reduce the complexity in the implementation of multi-lateral Open Access publication-level arrangements, ensuring a financial settlement can… Read full article >
OA Switchboard initiative: progress report July 2020
Delivering the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for the OA Switchboard initiative is almost a reality. With August around the corner, there will be a solution available to streamline the neutral exchange of OA related publication-level information between funders, institutions and publishers. This offers the potential to provide a breakthrough in the transformation of the market… Read full article >