Revising OASPA’s recommended practices - what we changed, and why - OASPA

"Early in 2024, OASPA set out to release recommended practices to increase (financial) equity in open access (OA) publishing. We are grateful for peer review, inputs and anonymous comments from stakeholders across all continents who have responded to our open consultation.

Feedback suggested our draft was detailed, important and helpful, but needed more work. It has taken significant time to review and consider over 500 free-text points of input before releasing these revised recommended practices.

Here we summarise what we have changed, and why. Not all feedback, nor explanation for every edit, is captured, but we report on the general nature of responses, and how we revised our work. Our goal in making revisions has been to be as thorough as possible, and to encourage and enable positive change...."