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Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association

The Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) is a non-profit trade association of open access journal and book publishers. Having started with an exclusive focus on open access journals, it has since expanded its activities to include matters pertaining to open access books and open scholarly infrastructure.[1]

Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association
AbbreviationOASPA
Formation14 October 2008
TypeInternational professional association
HeadquartersOnline
Location
Membership
Scholarly open access publishers
Official language
English
Chair of Board
Jennifer Gibson
Websiteoaspa.org

History

The OASPA was launched on October 14, 2008 at an "Open Access Day" celebration in London hosted by the Wellcome Trust.[2] The following organizations are founding members:[3]

The OASPA faced some criticism for a perceived conflict between its self-declared role as the "stamp of quality for open access publishing" and the application of its own criteria for membership. One member organization, Frontiers Media, was included on Jeffrey Beall's list of predatory open access publishing companies.[4] Two members, Hindawi and MDPI - initially called predatory by Beall - were later removed from his list after pressure was applied to his employer.[5][6] There was also concern around the fact that OASPA had been founded by BioMed Central and other open access publishers, which would cause a conflict of interest in their "seal of approval".[7] OASPA has also been criticized for promoting gold open access in a way that may be at the expense of green open access.[8]

Activities

OASPA organizes an annual conference on open access scholarly publishing.[9]

OASPA encourages publishers to use Creative Commons licenses, particularly the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY),[10] which is in line with most definitions of "open", e.g. the Open Definition by the Open Knowledge Foundation.[11]

Members

OASPA members fall into the following groups:

Professional publishing organisations – Organisations that include at least one full-time professional who manages the publication of OA scholarly journals or books. These organisations may be for-profit or nonprofit, and they may own journals or books or manage the publication on a contract basis for societies or other groups of scientists or scholars. Members of this class may also include organisations such as academic/research libraries, university presses, or other organisations in which the primary focus is other than publishing but still employ full-time professionals who manage the publication of OA scholarly journals and/or books.

Scholar publishers – Individuals or small groups of scientists/scholars that publish usually a single scholarly journal in their field of study. The publication process is often largely subsidised by volunteer effort.

Other organisations – Other organisations who provide significant services and/or support for OA publishing.

In order to join OASPA as a member organization, a publisher must undergo an assessment process and meet set criteria. These criteria were set in 2013 and revised again in August 2018.[12] There are seven categories of OASPA membership:[13]

  • Professional Publishing Organisation (Small)
  • Professional Publishing Organisation (Medium)
  • Professional Publishing Organisation (Large)
  • Professional Publishing Organisation (Very Large)
  • Other Organisation (non-commercial)
  • Other Organisation (commercial)
  • Scholar Publisher

As of March 2021, OASPA has 159 members.[14]

Response to the Science sting

As a response to the Who's Afraid of Peer Review? investigation, OASPA formed a committee to investigate the circumstances that led to the acceptance of the fake paper by 3 of its members.[15] On 11 November 2013, OASPA terminated the membership of two publishers (Dove Medical Press and Hikari Ltd.) who accepted the fake paper. Sage Press, which also accepted a fake paper, was put "under review" for 6 months.[1] Sage announced in a statement that it was reviewing the journal that accepted the fake paper, but that it would not shut it down.[16] Sage's membership was reinstated at the end of the review period following changes to the journal's editorial processes.[17] Dove Medical Press were also reinstated in September 2015 after making a number of improvements to their editorial processes.[18]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b This article incorporates material from the OASPA website, which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
  2. ^ "Announcing the launch of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA". EurekAlert!. AAAS. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  3. ^ "Founding Members". Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association. Retrieved 2015-01-06.
  4. ^ Beall, Jeffrey. . WordPress. Archived from the original on February 4, 2019. Retrieved March 17, 2021.
  5. ^ Beall, Jeffrey (2017). "What I learned from predatory publishers". Biochemia Medica. 27 (2): 273–279. doi:10.11613/BM.2017.029. PMC 5493177. PMID 28694718.
  6. ^ MDPI (28 October 2015), [1], Update: Response to Mr. Jeffrey Beall’s Repeated Attacks on MDPI
  7. ^ Salo, Dorothea (February 26, 2010). "OASPA: act now or lose credibility forever". ScienceBlogs. Retrieved October 18, 2018.
  8. ^ Harnad, Stevan (December 12, 2009). "Critique of Criteria for "Full Membership" in OASPA ("Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association")". ePrints.org. Retrieved October 18, 2018.
  9. ^ "OASPA Conference". OASPA. Retrieved March 17, 2021.
  10. ^ "General Comments from the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA to The Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Federal Government, the United States of America" (PDF). White House Archives. February 1, 2010. Retrieved October 18, 2018.
  11. ^ Open Definition, accessed February 13, 2011
  12. ^ "Membership Criteria". Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association. OASPA. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  13. ^ "Membership Dues". Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association. OASPA. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  14. ^ "Members", Oaspa.org, Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, retrieved 17 March 2021
  15. ^ Redhead, Claire. "OASPA's response to the recent article in Science entitled "Who's Afraid of Peer Review?"". Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
  16. ^ Gamboa, Camille. "Statement by SAGE on the Journal of International Medical Research". Sage. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  17. ^ Shaffi, Sarah (29 April 2014). "OASPA reinstates Sage membership". The Bookseller. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  18. ^ Redhead, Claire (23 September 2015). "Dove Medical Press reinstated as OASPA Members". Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association. Retrieved 1 February 2016.

External links

  • Official website  

This article incorporates material from the Citizendium article "Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association", which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License but not under the GFDL.

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The Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association OASPA is a non profit trade association of open access journal and book publishers Having started with an exclusive focus on open access journals it has since expanded its activities to include matters pertaining to open access books and open scholarly infrastructure 1 Open Access Scholarly Publishing AssociationAbbreviationOASPAFormation14 October 2008TypeInternational professional associationHeadquartersOnlineLocationThe Hague The NetherlandsMembershipScholarly open access publishersOfficial languageEnglishChair of BoardJennifer GibsonWebsiteoaspa org Contents 1 History 2 Activities 3 Members 4 Response to the Science sting 5 See also 6 References 7 External linksHistory EditThe OASPA was launched on October 14 2008 at an Open Access Day celebration in London hosted by the Wellcome Trust 2 The following organizations are founding members 3 BioMed Central Co Action Publishing Copernicus Publications Hindawi Publishing Corporation JMIR Publications Medical Education Online David Solomon Public Library of Science SAGE Publications SPARC Europe Utrecht University Library The OASPA faced some criticism for a perceived conflict between its self declared role as the stamp of quality for open access publishing and the application of its own criteria for membership One member organization Frontiers Media was included on Jeffrey Beall s list of predatory open access publishing companies 4 Two members Hindawi and MDPI initially called predatory by Beall were later removed from his list after pressure was applied to his employer 5 6 There was also concern around the fact that OASPA had been founded by BioMed Central and other open access publishers which would cause a conflict of interest in their seal of approval 7 OASPA has also been criticized for promoting gold open access in a way that may be at the expense of green open access 8 Activities EditOASPA organizes an annual conference on open access scholarly publishing 9 OASPA encourages publishers to use Creative Commons licenses particularly the Creative Commons Attribution License CC BY 10 which is in line with most definitions of open e g the Open Definition by the Open Knowledge Foundation 11 Members EditOASPA members fall into the following groups Professional publishing organisations Organisations that include at least one full time professional who manages the publication of OA scholarly journals or books These organisations may be for profit or nonprofit and they may own journals or books or manage the publication on a contract basis for societies or other groups of scientists or scholars Members of this class may also include organisations such as academic research libraries university presses or other organisations in which the primary focus is other than publishing but still employ full time professionals who manage the publication of OA scholarly journals and or books Scholar publishers Individuals or small groups of scientists scholars that publish usually a single scholarly journal in their field of study The publication process is often largely subsidised by volunteer effort Other organisations Other organisations who provide significant services and or support for OA publishing In order to join OASPA as a member organization a publisher must undergo an assessment process and meet set criteria These criteria were set in 2013 and revised again in August 2018 12 There are seven categories of OASPA membership 13 Professional Publishing Organisation Small Professional Publishing Organisation Medium Professional Publishing Organisation Large Professional Publishing Organisation Very Large Other Organisation non commercial Other Organisation commercial Scholar PublisherAs of March 2021 OASPA has 159 members 14 Response to the Science sting EditAs a response to the Who s Afraid of Peer Review investigation OASPA formed a committee to investigate the circumstances that led to the acceptance of the fake paper by 3 of its members 15 On 11 November 2013 OASPA terminated the membership of two publishers Dove Medical Press and Hikari Ltd who accepted the fake paper Sage Press which also accepted a fake paper was put under review for 6 months 1 Sage announced in a statement that it was reviewing the journal that accepted the fake paper but that it would not shut it down 16 Sage s membership was reinstated at the end of the review period following changes to the journal s editorial processes 17 Dove Medical Press were also reinstated in September 2015 after making a number of improvements to their editorial processes 18 See also EditAssociation for Learned and Professional Society Publishers Association of Publishing Agencies Directory of Open Access Journals International Association of Scientific Technical and Medical Publishers International Publishers Association Category Open access publishers Periodical Publishers Association Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition Society for Scholarly PublishingReferences Edit a b This article incorporates material from the OASPA website which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License Announcing the launch of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association OASPA EurekAlert AAAS Retrieved 26 September 2018 Founding Members Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association Retrieved 2015 01 06 Beall Jeffrey Beall s List of Potential Predatory Journals and Publishers WordPress Archived from the original on February 4 2019 Retrieved March 17 2021 Beall Jeffrey 2017 What I learned from predatory publishers Biochemia Medica 27 2 273 279 doi 10 11613 BM 2017 029 PMC 5493177 PMID 28694718 MDPI 28 October 2015 1 Update Response to Mr Jeffrey Beall s Repeated Attacks on MDPI Salo Dorothea February 26 2010 OASPA act now or lose credibility forever ScienceBlogs Retrieved October 18 2018 Harnad Stevan December 12 2009 Critique of Criteria for Full Membership in OASPA Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association ePrints org Retrieved October 18 2018 OASPA Conference OASPA Retrieved March 17 2021 General Comments from the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association OASPA to The Office of Science and Technology Policy the Federal Government the United States of America PDF White House Archives February 1 2010 Retrieved October 18 2018 Open Definition accessed February 13 2011 Membership Criteria Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association OASPA Retrieved 26 September 2018 Membership Dues Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association OASPA Retrieved 26 September 2018 Members Oaspa org Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association retrieved 17 March 2021 Redhead Claire OASPA s response to the recent article in Science entitled Who s Afraid of Peer Review Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association Retrieved 21 October 2013 Gamboa Camille Statement by SAGE on the Journal of International Medical Research Sage Retrieved 18 October 2018 Shaffi Sarah 29 April 2014 OASPA reinstates Sage membership The Bookseller Retrieved 2 June 2014 Redhead Claire 23 September 2015 Dove Medical Press reinstated as OASPA Members Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association Retrieved 1 February 2016 External links EditOfficial website This article incorporates material from the Citizendium article Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3 0 Unported License but not under the GFDL Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association amp oldid 1132321805, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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