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  First library publisher in North America to join the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)  Founding member of Coalition for Library Publishing  Member of Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity (COPE)  Major development partner for Public Knowledge Project (PKP)

What is OASPA?  Trade association for OA publishers –collaboration –standardization –advocacy for OA publishing  Formed in 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 permittedCC BYCC BY-NC  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 American Physical Society AOSIS OpenJournals BioMed Central Ltd Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals BMJ Cambridge University Press Co-Action Publishing Copernicus Publications CSIC Press ecancermedicalscience EDP Sciences eLife F1000Research Frontiers Hindawi Publishing Corporation IOP Publishing JMIR – Journal of Medical Internet Research Karger Publishers Leibniz-Institute for Psychology Information / PsychOpen Libertas Academica Living Reviews MDPI AG Open Book Publishers Oxford University Press PeerJ Pensoft Publishers Portland Press Ltd Public Library of Science SAGE Publications - under review Social Sciences Directory Ltd Springer Science+Business Media Taylor & Francis The Company of Biologists The Royal Society Ubiquity Press Ltd. University Library System, University of Pittsburgh University of Adelaide Press Utrecht University Library (Igitur) Wiley

Other (non-publisher) members AJOL, African Journals OnLine California Digital Library CLOCKSS Copyright Clearance Center Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) EBSCO Information Services eIFL.net Greenhouse Associates, Inc. HighWire Press, Stanford University Institute of Historical Research International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) Knowledge Unlatched Lund University Libraries National Documentation Center/NHRF National Library of the Netherlands OAPEN Foundation OpenEdition Portico Scholarly Exchange, Inc. SPARC Europe University of Tromsø / Septentrio Academic Publishing

Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP 2013) Highlights  DOAJ Update  Hybrid journals  Interactive peer review (Frontiers)  OA book publishing

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