« Each year, OASPA surveys its members about their publication output to report on volumes of published open access content and licensing. OASPA members were once again invited to share their data to update our previous post on this topic, from January 2025. Figures were supplied as number of articles published…
« OAPSA – the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association – has published a new ‘position paper’ and is inviting feedback from the industry on its stated aims. The paper, “Embracing the Complexity of ‘100% OA’: From Percentage to Participation”, produced in association with Research Consulting,…
« It is important, every now and then, for an organisation to take a step back and look at progress. 2023 was a good opportunity for OASPA to pause and take stock. We made time to check in with our members, we reviewed how and why they connect with us, and…
« OASPA has developed a draft of recommended practices to help publishing organisations increase equity in open access. These recommendations are currently undergoing extensive, multi-step, internal and external review. This post tells the story of how we got to this point, and why. Following review and revisions, we will be sharing…
« TU Delft OPEN Publishing has recently become a member of OASPA in the small professional publisher category, further enriching the growing community of members. To gain more insight into their recent affiliation with OASPA and to learn more about them, we conducted an interview with Just de…
« OASPA has been working on a series of workshops convening stakeholders around the subject of how to increase equity in open access (OA). For workshop facilitation and reporting from these sessions we owe huge thanks to Information Power. Our workshops have brought together mainly publishers and librarians,…
« If you’ve been following OASPA’s work on increasing equity in open access then you may know that we’ve already convened conversations spanning >50 stakeholders from 27 different countries. OASPA is grateful to this breadth of participation across sessions #1 and #2…
« The Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) and DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) release today a new Open Access Journals Toolkit. The launch of the Toolkit marks a significant milestone in the efforts of OASPA and DOAJ to promote transparency,…
« The second OASPA workshop in the Equity in Open Access series took place on 28 March 2023, with publishers, librarians, funders, and other stakeholders. (…)
In the second workshop we explored ways to increase equity in two categories of OA models: those where transactions are per-article or where prices…
