Join OASPA

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The Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association is "a not-for-profit organization representing a diverse community of organisations engaged in open scholarship."

Benefits

• Signal that we follow OA best practices (OASPA logo)
• Networking with other OA publishers/journals
• Discounted CrossRef membership
  • OASPA membership for scholar publishers is €75.00/year, and includes CrossRef membership + 50 DOI registrations per year
  • Directly joining CrossRef costs $275/year + $1 per DOI registration ($0.15 for articles before 2021)

Membership Requirements

• Journal level info
  • State what we don't do
    • [ ] no advertising
    • [ ] no fees
  • [ ] Check transparency and best practices principles
  • [ ] Indicate funding sources (I think we already do this)
  • [ ] Add electronic backup/digital archiving info (once we actually start doing this)
  • [ ] State OA level explicitly
  • [ ] State licensing and copyright policy
  • Describe editorial policies
    • [ ] peer review process (#6)
      • Peer review description must include: "the role of editors and editorial board in the process, what happens when peer review reports come in, whether the author can respond and who makes decision to accept/reject."
    • [ ] Publication ethics
    • [ ] Conflict of Interest handling
    • [ ] Research misconduct procedure & prevention
  • [ ] Check that marketing (manuscript solicitation & newsletters) conforms with OASPA code of conduct. Add a privacy policy statement to the website?
• Article level info
  • [ ] Add license (CC BY or CC BY-NC)
  • [ ] Add copyright statement
  • [ ] List submission, acceptance, and publication dates (need to backfill!)
  • [ ] Add author contact info

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• [ ] Split requirements into separate issues