The virtual 6th meeting of COAR Asia OA will be held 25-27 October 2021. The meeting will discuss the latest trends in open access and open scholarship, with community updates from Asia. Topics include open access infrastructure, open educational resources, open peer review, research data repositories, and tools built on open data. The meeting… 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 >
Jisc and CNI leaders conference
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 >