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 201120 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) WileyOA 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 TheoryOther 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 PublishingAssociate 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 MissionTo 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

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PLoSHindawi

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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 informationSupport 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 infrastructureContinue 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!