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15/11/2024

TU Dublin Diamond Open Access Book Nominated for Multiple Awards

News & Events | Diamond Open Access Book Shortlisted For Multiple Awards | TU Dublin 


14/11/2024

Lancaster University Library Launches a Guide to Publishing Open Access Monographs, Books, Book Chapters, and Long-form Outputs

A Guide to Publishing Open Access Monographs, Books, Book Chapters and Long-form Outputs - Overview 

A Guide to Publishing Open Access books, monographs, book chapters, and longform outputs by Lancaster University Library © 2024 by Lancaster University Library 

(opens in a new tab) is licensed under CC BY 4.0 

13/11/2024


OASPA Conference 2024

The recordings, slides and interactive mentimeter outputs from this year's OASPA Conference in Portugal in June are now online. You can find links on the programme. 

22/10/2024

Appreciation for Marie O'Neill, IOAP Co-founder, from Dr Johanna Archbold, IOAP Director

I know a good few people couldn't make our last team meeting in September with the time of year so I wanted to flag with everyone that Marie has stepped back from the the IOAP. We took the time at our last meeting to acknowledge her for all of her work in co-founding the IOAP with Jane Buggle, and thank for her all of her contributions. And of course also acknowledging all of her other Library/Open Publishing activities that support the Open Access and Diamond agenda nationally and internationally, and wishing her well in all of her future endeavours. I'm sure you will all join me in thanking Marie for everything she has done for the IOAP.


16/10/2024

Library Publishing Coalition and IFLA Library Publishing SIG Joint Webinar

Please join us for fascinating insights into the groundbreaking European Diamond OA projects, DIAMAS, CRAFT-OA, and PALOMERA, on Tuesday, November 19th 4 - 5.30pm. This event is free but booking is essential: https://bit.ly/405ctYV 


18/09/2024

Ask the Community — Thoughts on a Class Action Lawsuit Brought Against Scholarly Publishers

Ask the Community - Thoughts on a Class Action Lawsuit Brought Against Scholarly Publishers - The Scholarly Kitchen (sspnet.org) 

16/09/2024

Diamond  Open Access Strengthening the Ecosystem Community webinar | 10 September 2024. Click here to access the slides or click on the image below. 

Diamond OA Community Webinar - introduction (1).pdf

Also launched at the Diamond Open Access Strengthening the Ecosystem Community webinar | 10 September 2024 was the European Diamond Capacity Hub


Diamond OA Community Webinar - DCH.pdf

Also launched at the Diamond Open Access Strengthening the Ecosystem Community webinar | 10 September 2024 | was the Global Research Initiative on Open Science (GRIOS)


Diamond OA Community Webinar - Global Research Initiative OS.pdf

24/06/2024

The IOAP wishes to congratulate the International Scenario Project Team as the recipient of the UCC Research Award in Open Science 2023. The International Scenario Project Team are also the recipients of the IOAP Award: Outstanding Contribution to the Open Access Publishing Field in Ireland, 2024. 



12/06/2024

As a partner of the DIAMAS project, Jisc is hosting a webinar specifically aimed at OA institutional publishers in the UK and Ireland. 

Update: The slides from this event are now available on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/12549170 

 

The webinar will be held on Tuesday, 25 June (2.30 - 3.30pm) and will feature three short talks where speakers will explore the DIAMAS project in greater depth, and focus on the many findings of recent outputs, such as the landscape report, the sustainability report, and the newly launched Diamond OA Standard, which aims to promote quality in Diamond OA publishing.

 

Speaker 1: Graham Stone, Jisc

Speaker 2: Vanessa Proudman, SPARC Europe

Speaker 3: Pilar Rico Castro, FECYT | Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología

 

 Webinar presentations from the 25/06 event:


11/05/2024


DIAMAS has published a report on the financial sustainability of institutional publishing and service providers. See D5.1 IPSP Sustainability Research Report (zenodo.org) 




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22/04/2024

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. 


18/04/2024



11/04/2024 

Cronin, Catherine & Czerniewicz (2024) #OER24 The future isn’t what it used to be : #ALTC Blog 



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19/3/2024

Watkinson, Charles (2024) Dis-counting Open Access in the Humanities - Issuu, Against the Grain, V36 #1



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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



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.


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.


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

Kane, David. A Diamond in the Rough: EU leaks draft document for scholarly publishing reform. May 5th 2023

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.


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


24/01/2023

Science Europe's Diamond Open Access Conference in Zadar (Croatia) in September 2022. Speaker presentations are here.


19/01/2023


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


22/11/2022

NORF National Action Plan and Projects Launch Event - Nov 21 @2pm.  Register here.


04/11/2022


13/10/2022


12/10/2022


06/10/2022


29/09/2022

Webinar - New Horizons in Open Access Publishing (25th October, UCC, online)


15/09/2022


15/09/2022


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


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'.