Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA announces new board, press release, September 18, 2009.
The Open Access Scholarly Publishers
Association (OASPA) announced the results of its first election at the
1st Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing last week.
Board members and officers include: Caroline Sutton, Co-Action Publishing
(President); Saskia Franken, Utrecht University Library/Igitur
(Secretary); David Prosser, SPARC Europe (Treasurer), Bo-Christer Bjork,
Electronic Journal of Information Technology in Construction; Matt
Cockerill, BioMed Central; Gunther Eysenbach, Journal of Medical
Internet Research (JMIR); Mark Patterson, PLoS; Paul Peters, Hindawi
Publishing Corporation; David Solomon, Medical Education Online (MEO).
Over the coming months OASPA will be establishing sub-groups to address
the situation of different publisher groups and regions, as well as
sub-committees to move forward on specific issues together with the
broader scholarly communications community.
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 9/22/2009 03:40:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
