OASPA Update 2012

Caroline SuttonCo-founder, Co-Action PublishingPresident, OASPA

COASP 201219-21 September 2012Budapest, 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 RedheadMembership & 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 wrong-doing, 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

BMC

Copernicus

PLoS

Hindawi

Growth in OA

Thanks to Mark Patterson for sharing the slide and to BMC, Hindawi and Copernicus for sharing data.

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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) Attribution-

Noncommercial 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

Caroline.Sutton@co-action.net

info@oaspa.org

THANK YOU!