OASPA and the ULS
ULS Scholarly Communications
Lunch and Learn #5
Timothy S. Deliyannides
Director, Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing
University Library System
University of Pittsburgh
November 14, 2013
Why is the ULS a Publisher?
 Provide services that scholars understand, need
and value
 Incentivize Open Access
 Transform the subscription pricing system that
punishes libraries and scholars
 Deepen our understanding of scholarly
communications issues
ULS Leadership in advocacy for
OA publishing
 Founding member of Coalition for Library Publishing
 Member of Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity
(COPE)
 Major development partner for Public Knowledge Project
(PKP)
 First library publisher in North America to
join the Open Access Scholarly Publishers
Association (OASPA)
What is OASPA?
 Trade association for OA publishers
– collaboration
– standardization
– advocacy for OA publishing
 Formed in 2008. 10 founding members included the
‘big three’:
– PLoS
– BioMedCentral
– Hindawi
 ULS joined in 2012 – first library publisher member
in North America
OASPA’s mission
 Exchange Information
 Set Standards
– uniform definition of OA publishing
– best practices for OA scholarly communications
– ethical standards
 Advance OA business & process models
 Advocate for Gold OA
 Educate the research community and public on OA
 Promote Innovation
How does this benefit the ULS?
 STANDARDS help maintain and defend quality
 Provides tools for advocacy and teaching about OA
 Forum for discussion of key issues and trends
 Keeps us connected with current, inside
information
 Membership supports our reputation
OASPA Membership Criteria
 At least one gold OA journal with original research
 Articles must be peer-reviewed
 No reader registration required to access content
 OA policy equivalent to CC BY, however use of the CC
BY-NC license also permitted
 Desirable: DOIs for articles, indexing/discoverability,
COPE membership, archiving policy
 Compliance with OASPA Code of Conduct
OASPA Code of Conduct
 No practices or activities that could bring the
Association or open access publishing into
disrepute;
 Maintain rigorous peer review process for
published content
 Editorial boards with recognized experts
 Misconduct may be reported to the Board of
Directors resulting in review and expulsion
OASPA Code of Conduct (continued)
Clearly visible on publisher’s Web site:
– Company contact information
– Peer review process & policies
– Author fees and policies (if any)
– Author copyright/licensing policies
– Author submission instructions
– High standards of presentation
OASPA Members (Publishers)
American Institute of Physics
Frontiers
Portland Press Ltd
American Physical Society
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Public Library of Science
AOSIS OpenJournals
IOP Publishing
SAGE Publications - under review
BioMed Central Ltd
JMIR – Journal of Medical Internet Social Sciences Directory Ltd
Research
Springer Science+Business Media
Karger Publishers
Taylor & Francis
Leibniz-Institute for Psychology
The Company of Biologists
Information / PsychOpen
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation
Journals
BMJ
Cambridge University Press
Co-Action Publishing
Copernicus Publications
CSIC Press
ecancermedicalscience
EDP Sciences
eLife
F1000Research
Libertas Academica
The Royal Society
Living Reviews
Ubiquity Press Ltd.
MDPI AG
University Library System,
University of Pittsburgh
Open Book Publishers
Oxford University Press
PeerJ
Pensoft Publishers
University of Adelaide Press
Utrecht University Library (Igitur)
Wiley
Other (non-publisher) members
AJOL, African Journals OnLine
Knowledge Unlatched
California Digital Library
Lund University Libraries
CLOCKSS
National Documentation Center/NHRF
Copyright Clearance Center
National Library of the Netherlands
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) OAPEN Foundation
EBSCO Information Services
OpenEdition
eIFL.net
Portico
Greenhouse Associates, Inc.
Scholarly Exchange, Inc.
HighWire Press, Stanford University
SPARC Europe
Institute of Historical Research
University of Tromsø / Septentrio Academic
Publishing
International Network for the Availability of
Scientific Publications (INASP)
Conference on Open Access Scholarly
Publishing (COASP 2013)
Highlights
 DOAJ Update
 Hybrid journals
 Interactive peer review (Frontiers)
 OA book publishing
http://www.plos.org/about/open-access/howopenisit/
• Jointly developed by OASPA, SPARC and
PLoS
• Move the conversation from “Is It Open
Access?” to “HowOpenIsIt?”
• Clarify the definition of OA
• Standardize terminology
• Illustrate a continuum of “more open” to
“less open”
• Enable people to compare and contrast
publications and policies