OASPA Update 2012 Caroline Sutton Co-founder, Co-Action Publishing President, OASPA COASP September 2012 Budapest, Germany

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 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.

Growth in OA articles: BMC, PLoS and Hindawi 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

THANK YOU!