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OASPA Update 2012
Caroline Sutton
Co-founder, Co-Action Publishing
President, OASPA
COASP 2012
19-21 September 2012
Budapest, Germany
www.oaspa.org
Membership
Founders/Members 2008:
BioMed Central
Co-Action Publishing
Copernicus Publications
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Journal of Medical Internet Research (Gunther Solomon)
Medical Education Online (David Solomon)
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
SAGE Publications
SPARC Europe
Utrecht University Library (Igitur)
Members 2011
20 Professional Publishing Organizations
14 Scholar Publishers
4 Other organizations
24 Associate Members
Members 2012
OA Professional Publishing Organizations
American Institute of Physics
American Physical Society
AOSIS (Pty) Ltd, trading as AOSIS OpenJournals
BioMed Central Ltd
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
BMJ Group
Co-Action Publishing
Copernicus Publications
Dove Medical Press Ltd
ecancermedicalscience
EDP Sciences
Frontiers
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)
Leibniz-Institute for Psychology Information / PsychOpen
MDPI AG
Oxford University Press
Pensoft Publishers
Public Library of Science
Revistas CSIC
SAGE Publications
Springer Science+Business Media
The Royal Society
Ubiquity Press Ltd.
University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
Utrecht University Library (Igitur)
Wiley
OA Scientist/Scholar Publishers
BIIJ, Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal
Cellular Therapy and Transplantation
Hepatitis B Annual
IJES, International Journal of Exercise Science
Intangible
ITcon, Journal of Information Technology in Construction
JIEM, Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management
JMIR, Journal of Medical Internet Research
Knight Library Press
PAMJ, The Pan African Medical Journal
Semantics & Pragmatics
The Bible and Critical Theory
Other Organizations with Voting Privileges
AJOL, African Journals OnLine
California Digital Library
HighWire Press, Stanford University
Lund University Libraries
National Library of the Netherlands
Scholarly Exchange, Inc.
SPARC Europe
University of Tromsø / Septentrio Academic Publishing
Associate Members
Al-Ahli Hospital Doha Qatar
AoB PLANTS
Cambridge University Press
Canadian Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences
CLOCKSS
CytoJournal (Cytopathology Foundation Inc)
eIFL.net
eLife
Haworth Press (Taylor & Francis Group)
Indian Journal for the Practising Doctor
International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP)
Journal of Nepal Paediatric Society
Kathmandu University Medical Journal (KUMJ)
Kosson
Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences (MJMS)
MARKA Lda
Medical Education Online
MedULA
National Documentation Center/NHRF
Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon
PAGEPRESS publications
PeerJ
Portico
PSOAR and PGIAR Group
Scholarly and Research Communication
Social Sciences Directory Ltd
TERRAIN
Universidad Virtual en Ciencias de la Salud
Wide Screen
Introducing
Claire Redhead
Membership & Communications Manager
Procedure
Initial review by Membership & Communications
Manager
Review confirmed by Membership Committee (2
people).
On occasion President involved in discussion.
Full board notified of review for any additional
comments.
Criteria
A credible editorial board listed with full names
and affiliations.
Appropriate licensing policy, clearly visible on
website and individual articles (on at least one
journal).
Any fees should be stated clearly and posted
where they can be easily found. If a
journal/publisher applies no fees, this should also
be stated on the website.
Clearly defined peer review process.
A business address is listed.
A complaints address is listed.
Can you contact the editor directly?
Information on the journal/publishing organization’s
ownership structure is available.
What we also look for
Any stray information or items that would confuse
readers that this is an OA journal? (e.g. RightsLink
left on).
Are there any claims against this journal/publisher
being made in various forums? Do these warrant
consideration?
What indexing or database inclusion does the
publisher/journal list and can this be verified?
Does the publisher make claims that seem unrealistic
(e.g. peer review in 2 days)? Are claims supported
(e.g. published manuscripts include submission,
acceptance and publication dates).
Are articles available in XML as well as other
formats? Lack of an XML file does not imply wrongdoing, but indicates lower quality as articles are not
machine readable.
Does the publisher have a preservation strategy?
(e.g. are they a member of LOCKSS, CLOCKS,
Portico, etc.?)
The journal(s) have a clean layout.
There is an appropriate use of language on the
website?
If an individual is listed as Editor-in-Chief for more
than one journal is this explained? Does it seem
reasonable? Are the fields related?
Follow up
Code of conduct & complaints procedure
Monitor Beall’s List and similar to alert members
Practical Work
Outreach
”Lobbying” activity
Moving Forward
Background
OA publishers lacked a voice in public debates about
scholarly communications and Open Access
Open Access had become an established part of the
publishing landscape; it was time to address practical
issues
Need to develop uniform standards and best practices
Need to bring together the Open Access publishing
community
Need to share information and work collectively
OASPA represents both professional publishing
organizations as well as scholar publishers and
welcomes other organizations whose work supports OA
publishing.
OASPA Mission
To support and represent the interests of Open Access (OA)
journal publishers globally in all scientific, technical, and
scholarly disciplines.
To accomplish this mission, the association will:
Exchange information
Set standards
Advance models
Advocate for OA publishing
Educate
Promote innovation
Signs of the tipping point
Discursive Shifts
Arguments for open access are changing
Open access publishing now established as an
accepted part of the publishing landscape
Green vs. Gold moving to Green + gold
Growth in OA
18000
BMC
16000
14000
12000
10000
PLoS
Hindawi
8000
6000
4000
Copernicus
2000
0
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Thanks to Mark Patterson for sharing the slide and to
BMC, Hindawi and Copernicus for sharing data.
Growth in OA articles:
BMC, PLoS and Hindawi
35000
30000
25000
20000
15000
10000
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0
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
Thanks to Mark Patterson for sharing this slide.
And to Matt Cockerill, BMC; Paul Peters, Hindawi for sharing data.
Large number of legacy publishers now engaging in
OA publishing
What now?
Practical information
Support the conversation on transitioning to open
access publishing/introducing open access publishing
Providing practical help and information to better assist
these publishers in introducing and/or transitioning to
OA publishing models.
Share best practices and standards
Retain definition
Retaining the definition of OA journals
publishing
Licensing
practices
Standards
The core of scientific communication
OPEN ACCESS
= Free Access + Re-use
Creative Commons Licenses
Most common:
Attribution 3.0
(CCBY or CCAL)
AttributionNoncommercial 3.0
(CCBY-NC)
Demonstrate value of re-use
OASPA working group
Engage with third parties & other stakeholders
Build infrastructure
Continue to build infrastructure together with other
stakeholders
DOAJ
Payment
systems
Survey,Open Access Key, Consortia, Subjects beyond STM
Linking
to data
Preservation solutions
Deposition practices
ORCID
Impact evaluation tools/metrics
Working
group
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