Do you work with #OpenAccess #journals? Are you setting up a new journal? Are you training a team?

🧰 The OA Journals Toolkit provides guidance for new and established #OA journals to navigate the rapidly changing scholarly publishing landscape #OASPA #DOAJ

https://oajournals-toolkit.org

🔸Do you work with #OpenAccess journals? Are you setting up a new journal? Are you training a team?

🔸The OA Journals Toolkit should be your start point: https://oajournals-toolkit.org

🔸A free resource from #OASPA and #DOAJ

#ScholarlyPublishing

"This survey aims to gather perspectives on achieving truly equitable global open access as outlined in the OASPA ‘Next 50%’ project primer available via the Zenodo repository: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15463314.

Your responses will inform discussions about reassessing what "open" truly means and on creating a more inclusive knowledge ecosystem. This will support a more holistic transition to open access."

https://survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90846268/OASPA-open-survey

#OpenAccess #ScholComm #ScholarlyPublishing #OpenScience #EquitableScience #OpenKnowledge #OASPA

Project primer - Setting the stage for a 'different conversation' about open access

The Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) is launching a new project for 2025, bringing together publishing organisations with those who pay for, fund and invest in scholarly communication. This initiative, delivered in collaboration with Research Consulting, builds on OASPA's research and outputs of the past few years, following over 3,000 downloads of these recommendations on financial and workflow barriers. This project primer is intended to frame a range of current challenges and takes you through three aspects of openness that need to be combined to provide a truly equitable scholalry communication system. At the end of the document, we pose several questions that we would like readers to carefully consider prior to attending project workshops or providing feedback via our open survey (accepting responses till 11 July 2025). Our goal is to help stakeholders across the scholarly publishing community embrace a more inclusive vision of open access - one that distributes benefits and responsibilities fairly, based on collectively determined priorities.

Zenodo

Webinar

Open Access: Maintaining the Momentum

📆June 5 2025 | 14:00 GMT/15:00 BST

🎤Dominic Mitchell #DOAJ #OASPA #ThinkCheckSubmit
🎤Niels Stern #DOAB #OAPEN

https://marketing.degruyterbrill.com/Webinar_OpenAccess_MaintainingtheMomentum

Webinar Open Access: Maintaining the Momentum

Webinar: Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Academic Research

#OASPA is launching a collective project on new alternatives for #OpenAccess promotion, bringing together publishing, editing, and funding actors in scientific communication.

The goal: ensuring most academic publications are freely available without economic barriers.

More info and participation:

https://www.oaspa.org/news/announcing-oaspas-next-50-project-a-different-conversation-about-the-open-access-transition/

#OpenScience #ScholarlyComm #AcademicPublishing

Announcing OASPA’s ‘Next 50%’ project: a different conversation about the open access transition - OASPA

OASPA is launching a major new project for 2025, bringing together publishing organisations with those who pay for, fund and invest in scholarly

OASPA

#OASPA va a realizar un proyecto de construcción colectiva sobre nuevas alternativas para la promoción del #OpenAccess, reuniendo a actores que publican, editan y financian la comunicación científica.

El objetivo: lograr que la mayoría de publicaciones académicas sean de libre lectura sin restricciones económicas.

Más info y participación:

https://www.oaspa.org/news/announcing-oaspas-next-50-project-a-different-conversation-about-the-open-access-transition/

#OpenScience #OpenAccess #ScholComm

Announcing OASPA’s ‘Next 50%’ project: a different conversation about the open access transition - OASPA

OASPA is launching a major new project for 2025, bringing together publishing organisations with those who pay for, fund and invest in scholarly

OASPA

Timely and welcome in my timeline on this day -- happening now, and a recording will be available:

Webinar: Practical Applications of #OpenInfrastructure Tools for #ScholarlyCommunication

#OASPA
https://www.oaspa.org/events/webinar-practical-applications-of-open-infrastructure-tools-for-scholarly-communication/

Webinar: Practical Applications of Open Infrastructure Tools for Scholarly Communication - OASPA

OASPA

What do we mean by quality in #OpenAccess publishing? What do researchers expect from OA journals and what do OA journals offer? Are there any regional differences in the perception of publication quality?

➡️ Join the webinar by #OASPA https://www.oaspa.org/events/what-do-we-mean-by-quality-in-open-access-publishing/ to listen, learn & discuss 👂 🧠 🗣️

6 Feb 2025 3pm–4.15pm GMT/UTC

#academia #openscience

Webinar: What do we mean by quality in open access publishing? - OASPA

OASPA

The recording of the OASPA deep-dive into 'Subscribe to Open' aka S2O is now up https://www.oaspa.org/events/wayfinders-4-a-deep-dive-into-s2o-subscribe-to-open/

Really worth checking this out if you're not familiar with S2O.

The key thing to remember with S2O is that authors can make their work open access with no author-side fees under this model - it doesn't matter what your affiliation is. Enabling truly equitable open access. Diamond OA is best, but S2O is a pragmatic middle-ground and worthy of supporting too...

#S2O #SubscribeToOpen #OASPA

Wayfinders #4: a deep-dive into S2O / Subscribe to Open - OASPA

OASPA
A longer answer to a question raised at #OASPA about the danger of open infrastructure being acquired by commercial interests this blog post was circulated in March and explains the position of @PublicKnowledgeProject in this regard. For a deeper, more detailed (more fun?) conversation catch me at #OASPA2024 in Lisbon. https://pkp.sfu.ca/2024/03/14/pkp-not-for-sale/
By design, PKP is not for sale - Public Knowledge Project

Following the sale of PeerJ, PKP reiterates that its design goes hand in hand with its commitment to free and open software forever.

Public Knowledge Project