Announcing OASPA’s ‘Next 50%’ project: a different conversation about the open access transition - OASPA

"OASPA is launching a major new project for 2025, bringing together publishing organisations with those who pay for, fund and invest in scholarly communications. We’re delighted to be partnering with Research Consulting in delivering this work over the coming months.

This project will build on OASPA’s research and outputs of the past few years, most notably following over 3,000 downloads of OASPA’s recommendations on financial and workflow barriers.

Our latest output, published in Katina, is about asking the right questions to complete the open access transition; here we explain how although about half of the transition to open access is done, the other (arguably tougher) half is yet to be navigated. Our article urges cross-stakeholder participation in a process of evolution and course correction...."