Equity in Open Access Scholarly Publishing: A Reflection on OASPA 2024 | OBC Information Hub

  Fathallah, J., Deville, J., & Dube, N. (2024). Equity in Open Access Scholarly Publishing: A Reflection on OASPA 2024. OBC Information Hub. Retrieved from https://openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/equity-in-open-access-scholarly-publishing-a-reflection-on-oaspa-2024

The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) Conference took place on the 16–18 September in Lisbon this year. Some of us — Joe Deville and Judith Fathallah — represented the Open Book Collective, alongside a number of other colleagues from the Copim communities. These included Lucy Barnes (Open Book Publishers), Vincent Van Gerven Oei (punctum books), Anna Hughes (Jisc) and Niels Stern and Silke Davison (both DOAB/OAPEN).

Several of the panel themes resonated with our concerns at Copim, including those that focused on equity, open infrastructure, and moving away from Book Processing Charges as a model for open access (OA) books. OASPA has recently released recordings of all the plenary sessions. These recordings prompted us to revisit our notes on the event and to reflect on the event as a whole. In this reflection, we have pulled out themes that particularly resonated with us, linking to the recordings where relevant, as well as reflecting on our own panel.