« (…) Back in 2021, OASPA brought together people from different stakeholder groups across scholarly communications to consider how best to enable a healthy landscape with greater diversity in the economic system that supports open access publishing. (…) »
The ‘OA market’ – what is healthy? Part 1
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« Within the framework of its task to coordinate, monitor and promote cooperation between stakeholders for open access to scientific publications, the National Library of Sweden (NLS) has signed a membership agreement for 2023 with OA Switchboard – a central metadata hub. (…) »
« The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) are scholarly organisations that have seen an increase in the…
« In June 2021, OASPA ran a webinar to showcase the Make Data Count (MDC) initiative, and talk about the importance of data citation for its members. We were really pleased with the engagement on the webinar, lots of discussion and questions, but there’s only so much you…
« This blog post describes the ‘innovative business models for open access book publishing – 6 approaches in Europe’ workshop that took place on April 7th, 2021 (please scroll down for the video).
Together with the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA), OPERAS is hosting a series…
« The Open Access Books Network (OABN), begun by OAPEN, OPERAS, ScholarLed and SPARC Europe, is an open online community devoted to sharing knowledge and resources about all aspects of open access books.
Founded in September 2020, it is open to everyone interested in open access books.…
« As well as the recording above, please see this post for speakers’ key takeaways, answers to attendee questions and a curated resource and comment list from the webinar chat channel. (…) »
« The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) is a membership organisation that was established in 2008 in order to represent the interests of Open Access (OA) publishers globally in all scientific, technical and scholarly disciplines.
Every year OASPA holds a conference which brings together…
« Now in its 11th year, the OASPA annual conference is a major scholarly publishing conference that brings the open access community together to discuss new developments and innovations in scholarly publishing and unite in our shared goal to enable research around the world to be openly accessible. This year,…
« One of the goals of OASPA is to support the transition to a world in which open access becomes the predominant mode of publication. As we have charted in the annual statistics on the growth of open content published using various Creative Commons licenses, steady progress is being made (see…
