OASPA is pleased to announce the fifth webinar in our new Open Scholarship Webinar Series*, in which we are inviting a number of speakers to consider contemporary debates in open research and open access publishing: How to set up your data sharing policy Date: Thursday 6th June 2019 Time: 3.00pm – 4.15pm BST (other timezones:… Read full article >
OASPA Response to European Commission Expert Group Report
Earlier this year the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 expert group on Future of Scholarly Publishing and scholarly Communication (E03463) published a report: ‘Future of scholarly publishing and scholarly communication’ The DG Research and Innovation has invited members of the Open Science Policy Platform (Expert Group E03436), of which OASPA is a member, to respond… Read full article >
OASPA Webinar: Implementing a consortial funding model for open access publishing
OASPA is pleased to announce the fourth webinar in our new Open Scholarship Webinar Series*, in which we are inviting a number of speakers to consider contemporary debates in open research and open access publishing: Implementing a consortial funding model for open access publishing Date: Thursday 4th April 2019 Time: 3.30pm – 4.30pm BST… Read full article >
The OA Switchboard
On December 6th 2018, a group of stakeholders representing research funding organizations, academic libraries, scholarly publishers, and open infrastructure providers met in London to discuss a proposal for addressing the growing set of challenges in the implementation of institutional and funder policies supporting open access publication. The result of this initial stakeholder meeting was broad… 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 >