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 >
OASPA Webinar in support of Academic-Led Publishing Day
OASPA is pleased to announce the third webinar in our new series, in which we are inviting a number of speakers to consider contemporary debates in open research and open access publishing. The next webinar will be The Academy takes on publishing: OASPA Webinar in support of Academic-Led Publishing Day. Date: Thursday 7th February 2019 Time:… Read full article >
OASPA Offers Support on the Implementation of Plan S
The following statement was written by the members of OASPA’s Board of Directors: The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) is a community of publishers and related organisations committed to supporting the transition to a world in which open access becomes the predominant model of publication for scholarly outputs. OASPA therefore welcomes the launch of… Read full article >
OASPA members demonstrate another year of steady growth in CC BY article numbers for fully-OA journals
Data for the above chart can be downloaded here: OASPA Members CC-BY Growth_Data to 2017_CC0 A total of 1,128,721 articles were published with the CC BY license in open access-only (fully-OA) journals by members of OASPA during the period 2000-2017, with 219,627 of those being published in 2017 alone. OASPA members were invited to share… Read full article >