[IP-OA_Forum] Announcing next OASPA Webinar: Funding Open Access after the Transformation (May 23)

[Bernie Folan <bernie.folan@oaspa.org>]

OASPA is delighted to announce our next webinar, happening on May 23: Funding Open Access after the Transformation

At its launch in 2018, cOAlition S announced that its members would, for a “transition period,” fund open access fees for journals covered by “transformative” agreements. That move helped to establish read-and-publish deals as the leading OA business model, despite criticism that the agreements prop up the author-pays APC system. The same author-pays business model has, despite this opposition, also gained traction to fund the publication of OA books (through BPCs).

As cOAlition S recently communicated, the transition period is ending; beginning in 2025, funders adhering to Plan S will no longer support the agreements. What is more, a growing chorus of stakeholders, including the Ivy Plus librarians in the US and a coalition of UK-based researchers, are calling for an alternative, collective funding model for OA. At the same time, collective funding experiments as well as conditional open models (such as Subscribe to Open)—in which neither authors nor readers pay—are reporting promising results around the globe.

This webinar features perspectives on the emerging landscape of collective and conditional open models from publishers and will be followed this year by a second webinar focusing on the perspective of funders.

The webinar will be chaired by Raym Crow of SPARC and Chain Bridge Group.  Panellists: Vivian Berghahn of Berghahn Books, Judith Fathallah of Lancaster University, Ámbar Tenorio-Fornés and Evgeniya Lupova-Henry of Quartz OA.

Please join us live for this free webinar and contribute to the discussion. Full information on our blog.

Link to registration page: https://bit.ly/MAY2023_OASPA_Webinar. Please share with those you think may be interested.

We are grateful to our webinar series sponsors Royal Society of Chemistry, TrendMD and Hindawi for their generous support which enables us to make our webinars available to all.

Best wishes,

Bernie

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Bernie Folan

Communications, Engagement and Outreach Manager, OASPA

OASPA, Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association

bernie.folan@oaspa.org

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