Open Access (OA) output is growing year-on-year and increasingly, funders and institutions are paying for OA centrally. OA business models are becoming ever more diverse, some with or without individual publication fees, some through agreements with publishers. Meanwhile, funders and institutions are expanding their requirements about how various research outputs should be published. With all of these developments,… Read full article >
OA Switchboard initiative: progress report March 2020
The OA Switchboard initiative is a collaboration between funders, institutions and publishers with the aim to facilitate the fulfilment of OA strategies across business models, policies and agreements, whilst providing a better experience for researchers/authors. The 2020 OA Switchboard project, as announced in our January progress report, explores how we can build an operational solution… Read full article >
OA Switchboard initiative: progress report January 2020
The OA Switchboard aims to facilitate the fulfilment of open access strategies across business models, policies and agreements, and reduce complexity for all relevant stakeholders. Open Access output is growing year-on-year. Increasingly, funders and institutions are paying for OA centrally. OA business models are becoming more and more diverse and complicated. Funders and institutions are… 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 >
OASPA Webinar: How should Scholarly Societies transition to Open Access?
As well as the recording above, please see this post for webinar speakers’ key takeaways and answers to attendee questions. How should Scholarly Societies transition to OA? OASPA is pleased to announce the sixth webinar in our Open Scholarship Webinar Series, in which we are inviting a number of speakers to consider contemporary debates… Read full article >