Irish Open Access Publishers
Irish Open Access Publishers (IOAP) is a community of practice driven by Irish open access publishers for Irish open access publishers. The IOAP promotes engagement with the Diamond Open Access publishing model (free to publish and free to read) as well as indexing on the Directory of Open Access Journals and the Directory of Open Access Books. The aim of this dynamic community of practice is to promote publishing activity that is free of pay walls and publication embargoes to further the dissemination of high quality scholarly output to all in society.
The IOAP seeks to unite and strengthen communication and knowledge sharing amongst the diverse range of open access publishers in Ireland to advance best practice. These include:
Library Publishers
University Presses
Learned Societies
Independent OA Publishers
Individual academics engaged in open access publishing
Publishers of open textbooks and open educational resource (OERs)
The IOAP also engages a wide variety of national and international open access agencies in this dialogue including funders, policy makers, academic institutions, libraries, open access organisations, student bodies, lecturers, researchers and students.
The IOAP engages in advocacy and educational/mentoring activities with the aim of making Ireland a world class leader in Irish open access publishing.
News
Buggle, Jane (2024) IOAP Inaugural Diamond Open Access Publishing Awards 2024 ~ libfocus - Irish library blog
23/04/2024
The IOAP is delighted to offer a bursary to a Masters/PhD student to attend the RESSH Conference in Galway 23-24 May. The bursary covers conference registration fee and two nights' accommodation in Galway. The application form is here: Application for Bursary to Attend RESSH 2024 (google.com) . Deadline for submissions is close of business on Friday 3rd May. Judges' decision is final.
22/04/2024
Barnes, Lucy (2024) Open-access books need more support from universities - Research Professional News
18/04/2024
Cronin, Catherine & Czerniewicz (2024) #OER24 The future isn’t what it used to be : #ALTC Blog
11/04/2024
Noonan, Elizabeth (2024) Diamond Open Access at UCC: Journals honoured at the IOAP Inaugural Diamond Open Access Publishing Awards 2024 - The River-side April 2
02/02/2024
Nemecheck, Caroline (2024) Impact Beyond the Numbers: How Do People Really Use Open Access Books? (umich.edu) April 1
02/04/2024
Watkinson, Charles (2024) Dis-counting Open Access in the Humanities - Issuu, Against the Grain, V36 #1
19/3/2024
Rethinking Research Assessment for the Greater Good: Findings from the RPT Project
08/03/2024
Willinsky, John and Alperin, Juan Pablo (2024) The Platform Developers in a Federated Model of Diamond Open Access – the diamond papers (hypotheses.org)
26/02/2024
Martin Eve: CrossRef DOIs, Persistent Discovery, and the Digital Preservation of 7.5m items
Landmark report shows scholarly content at risk
24/01/2024
Diamond OA Community Webinar. 26th Feb. 3- 5pm GMT. Speakers: Arianna Becerril-García, Redalyc/AmeliCA (tbc)
Martin Halbert, National Science Foundation (NSF), USA
Mochammad Tanzil Multazam, Universitas Muhammadiyah Sidoarjo, Indonesia
Reggie Raju, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Please register at https://eu01web.zoom.us/meeting/register/
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23/01/2024
DIAMAS Project Results: Navigating Europe's Institutional Publishing Landscape on Wednesday 7th February, 9 - 10.30am. Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMsdumhrT4tGtybJK_wRPQHJfIo6uzfP7Sy#/registration
IOAP and Publish OA hosted DOAJ Sprint: Demystifying the DOAJ Application Form, with Judith Barnsby (Head of Editorial, DOAJ). Thursday 29th February at 2pm. Registration is essential. https://forms.gle/UyHDVedfH6iXJywp6
18/01/2024
Case Studies in Library Publishing. LAI Library Publishing Group Webinar on Thursday 22nd February at 2pm.
15/01/2024
04/01/2024
OASPA has published its conference recordings
10/10/2023
OASPA and DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) today release a new Open Access Journals Toolkit.
27/06/2023
IFLA's Library Publishing Special Interest Group will hold an Open Session at WLIC2023 in Rotterdam on Tuesday 22nd August at 11.30 am on the theme, Working Together to Expand the Impact of Library Publishing Globally. Keynote Speaker is Eelco Ferwerda (Netherlands), previously Director of OAPEN. Grace Liu (Canada), Jill Claassen (South Africa|) and Fiona Bradley (Australia) will be on the panel.
IFLA WLIC 2023 - Program (abstractserver.com)
26/06/2023
IFLA's Library Publishing Special Interest Group will hold a Satellite event at the Royal Library of the Netherlands (KB) in The Hague on Saturday 19th August from 9 am - 5.30 pm. Excellent programme. Registration is €50. All welcome.
WLIC2023 Satellite (google.com)
26/06/2023
New #OpenVoices interview with Malavika Legge from @OASPA on APCs, transformative agreements and equitable OA publishing. https://hardimanlibrary.blogspot.com/2023/05/futureofOA.html…
Boston, A.J. Manifesto for a New Read Deal. The Scholarly Kitchen, May 18th, 2023.
19/05/2023
Guest Post – Manifesto for a New Read Deal - The Scholarly Kitchen (sspnet.org)
Kane, David. A Diamond in the Rough: EU leaks draft document for scholarly publishing reform. May 5th 2023
(1) A Diamond in the Rough: EU Leaks Draft Document for Scholarly Publishing Reform | LinkedIn
Ma, L., Buggle, J. and O’Neill, M., 2023. Open access at a crossroads: library publishing and bibliodiversity. Insights: the UKSG journal, 36(1), p.10. DOI: 10.1629/uksg.613
09/05/2023
OASPA webinar: Scholarly Communication in Crisis: Research Integrity and Open Scholarship.
30/03/2023
Panelists: Dorothy Bishop, Adam Day and b, and Chair, Catriona MacCallum. See this blog post for full information including speaker biographies. Link to registration page: https://bit.ly/April2023_OASPA_Webinar
Learning from national open access platforms
25/04/2023
23/03/2023
IFLA LIBPUB SIG launched a call for proposals for its WLIC 2023 Satellite on the theme of the Global Impact of Library Publishing. The Satellite will be held in The Hague on 19th August 2023.
10/03/2023
The IFLA Library Publishing Special Interest Group (LIBPUB SIG) launches its new Blog Post Series, Library Publishing through the IFLA Global Lens
17/02/2023
Webinar: Next Generation Library Publishing Project (NGLP)
03/02/2023
The LAI Library Publishing Group is delighted that Sarah Lippincott will speak about the Next Generation Library Publishing (NGLP) Project at its webinar on 13th March at 4 pm. All welcome but booking is essential.
OASPA Blog Post: The 'OA Market' - What is Healthy (Part 2)
31/01/2023
The LAI Open Scholarship Group invites you to a discussion on what it truly takes to open up access to information, research and education. Friday 10th Feb 10 - 11.30 am
26/01/2023
OASPA Blog Post: The 'OA Market' - What is Healthy? (Part 1)
24/01/2023
Science Europe's Diamond Open Access Conference in Zadar (Croatia) in September 2022. Speaker presentations are here.
19/01/2023
Open Research Week 2023 Open Research Week 2023- Open Research - University of Liverpool
19/12/2022
08/12/2022
The recording of the launch of Ireland's National Action Plan for Open Research 2022-30 and the projects funded by NORF 2022 Open Research Fund is here
01/12/2022
Stop paying to be published Open Access - a French perspective (arphahub.com) by Olivier Pourret
22/11/2022
NORF National Action Plan and Projects Launch Event - Nov 21 @2pm. Register here.
04/11/2022
Recording of OASPA Conference now available
13/10/2022
Why I think ending article-processing charges will save open access (nature.com) - Juan Pablo Alperin
12/10/2022
06/10/2022
29/09/2022
Webinar - New Horizons in Open Access Publishing (25th October, UCC, online)
15/09/2022
Revised principles of transparency and best practice released - OASPA
15/09/2022
Statement on peer reviewed publications | Plan S (coalition-s.org)
06/07/2022
IOAP signs the Science Europe, Coalition S, OPERAS, and the French National Research Agency (ANR) Action Plan for Diamond Open Access
03/06/2022
Slides from the Diamond Open Access Community Webinar
22/04/2022
AJ Boston writes on the importance of equity in OA publishing in the Scholarly Kitchen
10/05/2022
cOAlition S and ALPSP publish toolkit to foster Open Access agreements | Plan S (coalition-s.org)
04/04/2022
04/04/2022
Science Europe, cOAlition S, OPERAS, and the French National Research Agency (ANR): Action Plan for Diamond Open Access (Press Release)
03/02/2022
Another University Making Rights Retention their Institutional Policy
01/02/2022
(University of NSW Sydney). Further information here.
Some Pitfalls of OA Discussions: An Opinion Piece
20/01/2022
Jan Erik Frantsvag opinion piece entitled 'Some Pitfalls of OA Discussions' in Nordic Perspectives of Open Science. Click here to read.
The OA Diamond Journals Study is published
09/03/2021
Science Europe and cOAlition S publish an in-depth report and recommendations arising from a study of community-driven Open Access journals across the world that are free for readers and authors, usually referred to as 'OA diamond journals'.