The conference will explore the pivotal role the library plays in supporting the university’s research enterprise to adapt to new technologies and workflows and realising the potential any disruption it will offer. The last 12 months or so has reshaped the research landscape: forcing collaborations to take place virtually, limiting access to fieldwork and labs… Read full article >
Critical Approaches to Libraries Conference (CALC) 2021
This is the second year of the UK’s first conference focused on critical practice in libraries. While the 2021 e-conference will contain presentations covering multiple aspects of critical practice (decolonisation, critical pedagogy, marginalised perspectives etc.) a substantial strand of talks and our keynote explore open publishing including: Publishing Open Access: A Trade Union Perspective How… Read full article >
OASPA members’ output continues to grow, as does the use of CC BY licenses
Each year, OASPA surveys its members about their publication output. This year, we are delighted to have worked with Delta Think who have helped us by taking on the analysis, structuring and presentation of the data we collected, and in this guest blog post they highlight our findings. This post is by Dan Pollock, Chief… 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 >