Date: November 4, 2021 OASPA is pleased to announce our next webinar which will focus on the interface between openness and privacy. Open Access is part of a large movement in scholarly research toward openness, often captured in terms such as Open Science, Open Licenses, Open Data, and Open Metadata. The rights of researchers to… Read full article >
Webinar – Researcher Focus 1: Researcher Needs, Common Values and Practices
As well as the recording above, please scroll down in this post for responses to some of the unanswered questions from attendees. Date: June 29, 2021 Time: 3 – 4.15 pm UK (2 – 3.15 pm UTC) Other timezones: 7.00 am Pacific Time, 9.00 am Central Time, 10.00 am Eastern… 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 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… Read full article >
A review of recent European Union Open Access initiatives
Every six months, the Council of the European Union rotates its presidency among the European Union member states. The Netherlands, Slovak and Maltese presidencies of the Council of the EU collectively cover the presidential period from January 2016 to June 2017. From January to June 2016, the Netherlands presided over the Council, with Sander Dekker,… Read full article >