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 >
OASPA Webinar: How to set up your data sharing policy
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… 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 >