LPC’s Strategic Affiliates Program connects our community with peer membership communities working in libraries, publishing, and scholarly communications. LPC’s leadership has regular touch base calls with each of our affiliates and occasionally invites their leadership to group discussions on topics of broad interest. This work helps us to support the ‘community of communities,’ to align our work and to avoid duplication of effort. However, it is largely invisible to LPC’s membership. To recognize our affiliates’ contributions to our community, and to connect our members to resources and opportunities in peer communities, we are publishing a series of Affiliate Spotlights on the blog in 2024.
About
Website: https://oaspa.org/
X (Twitter): @OASPA
Strategic affiliate since: 2017
OASPA is a diverse community of organisations engaged in open scholarship. Our membership includes scholar-led and professional publishers of books and journals, across varied geographies and disciplines, as well as infrastructure and other services. We are a trusted convenor of the broad, global spectrum of open access stakeholders and a proven venue for productive collaboration.
OASPA works collaboratively with other allied organisations on things we think are important. This includes our continued support of the OA Journals Toolkit with DOAJ, participation in the European Commission-funded DIAMAS and PALOMERA projects, working on the committees for Think. Check. Submit., C4DISC, the OA books author toolkit, and our ongoing support of OA Switchboard.
Resources
We asked our affiliates to identify some of their resources that may be of interest to the LPC community.
- We host regular free online seminars on many topics relevant to open access and open scholarship: https://www.oaspa.org/events/virtual-seminars/
- We host an annual conference each September where people can get together to hear the latest thinking on open access and open scholarship as well as network with peers and make new connections: https://www.oaspa.org/events/2024-conference/
- Those publishing OA books and/or journals or directly enabling OA publishing can become members. See https://www.oaspa.org/apply/membership-benefits/
- Others who wish to support our work are welcomed as Supporters. See https://www.oaspa.org/membership/support-us/
- Our work to support Equity in OA can be found at https://www.oaspa.org/news/
equity-in-oa/ - Keep up-to-date with all going on with OASPA via our news posts: https://www.oaspa.org/news/
Collaborations
OASPA is an active participant in the event planning knowledge share calls that LPC hosts, and our regular check-ins with OASPA staff keep LPC’s staff and Board in the know about developing trends in the OA space. Additionally, our two communities work side by side within the Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC), of which we are both active members.