Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing - OASPA

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-06-23

Summary:

"The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) are scholarly organizations that have seen an increase in the number, and broad range in the quality, of membership applications. Our organizations have collaborated in an effort to identify principles of transparency and best practice for scholarly publications and to clarify that these principles form part of the criteria on which membership applications will be evaluated. These criteria are largely derived from those developed by the Directory of Open Access Journals. Note that additional membership criteria may also be used by each of the scholarly organizations. The organizations will not share information about applications received. We do not intend to develop or publish a list of publishers or journals that failed to demonstrate they met the criteria for transparency and best practice. This is the second version of a work in progress (published June 2015); the first version was made available by OASPA in December 2013. We encourage its wide dissemination and continue to welcome feedback on the general principles and the specific criteria. Background on the organizations is below ..."

Link:

http://oaspa.org/principles-of-transparency-and-best-practice-in-scholarly-publishing-2/

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Tags:

oa.business_models oa.publishers oa.quality oa.gold oa.best_practices oa.standards oa.wame oa.oaspa oa.doaj oa.cope oa.new oa.principles oa.policies oa.journals

Date tagged:

06/23/2015, 07:24

Date published:

06/23/2015, 12:16