OASPA webinar: Scholarly Communication in Crisis: Research Integrity and Open Scholarship.
30/03/2023
Panelists: Dorothy Bishop, Adam Day and b, and Chair, Catriona MacCallum. See this blog post for full information including speaker biographies. Link to registration page: https://bit.ly/April2023_OASPA_Webinar
Learning from national open access platforms
25/04/2023
Publish OA webinar 25 April at 2pm GMT. Panelists include Jan Willem Wijnen (openjournals.nl), Antti-Jussi Nygård and Sami Syrjämäki (journal.fi).
23/03/2023
IFLA LIBPUB SIG launched a call for proposals for its WLIC 2023 Satellite on the theme of the Global Impact of Library Publishing. The Satellite will be held in The Hague on 19th August 2023.
10/03/2023
The IFLA Library Publishing Special Interest Group (LIBPUB SIG) launches its new Blog Post Series, Library Publishing through the IFLA Global Lens
17/02/2023
Webinar: Next Generation Library Publishing Project (NGLP)
03/02/2023
The LAI Library Publishing Group is delighted that Sarah Lippincott will speak about the Next Generation Library Publishing (NGLP) Project at its webinar on 13th March at 4 pm. All welcome but booking is essential.
OASPA Blog Post: The ‘OA Market’ – What is Healthy (Part 2)
31/01/2023
The LAI Open Scholarship Group invites you to a discussion on what it truly takes to open up access to information, research and education. Friday 10th Feb 10 – 11.30 am
26/01/2023
OASPA Blog Post: The ‘OA Market’ – What is Healthy? (Part 1)
24/01/2023
Science Europe’s Diamond Open Access Conference in Zadar (Croatia) in September 2022. Speaker presentations are here.
19/01/2023
Open Research Week 2023 Open Research Week 2023- Open Research – University of Liverpool
19/12/2022
Adding equity to transformative agreements and journal subscriptions –The Read & Let Read model | Impact of Social Sciences (lse.ac.uk)
08/12/2022
The recording of the launch of Ireland’s National Action Plan for Open Research 2022-30 and the projects funded by NORF 2022 Open Research Fund is here
01/12/2022
Stop paying to be published Open Access – a French perspective (arphahub.com) by Olivier Pourret
22/11/2022
NORF National Action Plan and Projects Launch Event – Nov 21 @2pm. Register here.
04/11/2022
Recording of OASPA Conference now available
13/10/2022
Why I think ending article-processing charges will save open access (nature.com) – Juan Pablo Alperin
12/10/2022
Recording of the LAI Library Publishing Group webinar, Library Publishing Workflows with Brandon Locke (Educopia)
06/10/2022
Plan S Journal Comparison Service: open for libraries and library consortia to register and access price and service data
29/09/2022
LAI Library Publishing Group (LPG) webinar on Thursday 29th September 4 – 5 pm. Brandon Locke (Educopia) on Library Publishing Workflows
16/09/2022
Webinar – New Horizons in Open Access Publishing (25th October, UCC, online)
15/09/2022
Revised principles of transparency and best practice released – OASPA
15/09/2022
Statement on peer reviewed publications | Plan S (coalition-s.org)
06/07/2022
IOAP signs the Science Europe, Coalition S, OPERAS, and the French National Research Agency (ANR) Action Plan for Diamond Open Access
03/06/2022
Registration is open for the OASPA Conference from 20th – 22nd October 2022
26/05/2022
Inaugural Annual IOAP Seminar:
11/05/2022
The IOAP is delighted to announce its inaugural seminar entitled ‘Case Studies in Irish Open Access Publishing’ which will be held at the Institute of Art and Design in June 2023. Seminar organisers welcome submissions from publishers, educational organisations and individual academics or students. Please click here for the call for papers and for event details.
Inaugural Annual IOAP Awards:
11/05/2022
The IOAP invites submissions from Irish open access publishers for the IOAP’s inaugural Open Access Publishing awards. Submissions are welcome from publishers, educational organisations, and individual academics or students.
The winner and runner-up will be selected by an independent panel of experts and announced at the IOAP’s Inaugural Seminar in October 2023 Please click here for submission details.
Slides from the Diamond Open Access Community Webinar
22/04/2022
AJ Boston writes on the importance of equity in OA publishing in the Scholarly Kitchen
10/05/2022
cOAlition S and ALPSP publish toolkit to foster Open Access agreements | Plan S (coalition-s.org)
04/04/2022
NORF has published a National Action Plan for Open Research 2022 – 2030- Draft for Public Consultation
04/04/2022
Science Europe, cOAlition S, OPERAS, and the French National Research Agency (ANR): Action Plan for Diamond Open Access (Press Release)
03/02/2022
Another University Making Rights Retention their Institutional Policy
01/02/2022
(University of NSW Sydney). Further information here.
Some Pitfalls of OA Discussions: An Opinion Piece
20/01/2022
Jan Erik Frantsvag publishes an opinion piece entitled ‘Some Pitfalls of OA Discussions’ in Nordic Perspectives of Open Science. Click here to read.
The OA Diamond Journals Study is published
09/03/2021
Science Europe and cOAlition S publish an in-depth report and recommendations arising from a study of community-driven Open Access journals across the world that are free for readers and authors, usually referred to as ‘OA diamond journals’.
