Wayfinders #2: building equity from a ‘per-publication charge’ context

Описание: OASPA’s Wayfinders series brings to life practical case studies helping all organisations find ways to increase equity in open access (OA).

Our second Wayfinders webinar on Wednesday, February 28 focused on those currently operating in a per-publication charge context. It is one thing for publishers that are set up, from the get-go, to support OA without researcher-facing fees or per-unit invoices. (Future OASPA Wayfinders sessions will explore such approaches in detail.) However, the picture is complex for those currently using APCs / per-publication-charges. Wayfinders #2 will collect views from such publishers who are taking steps to increase equity in OA, and committing to or exploring a move away from per-publication charges. We will hear from fully-OA publishing, society publishing and a university press.

Why ‘Wayfinders’?

Per-publication charges (APC/BPCs), Read & Publish, transformative agreements and many ‘publish-only’ agreements currently exclude many researchers without the ability to pay, and leave out those who aren’t affiliated with the ‘right’ institutions. Better engagement routes are also needed in all OA models so any scholar, regardless of funding, career stage, geography or affiliation, can have a voice in scholarly publishing and be a stakeholder with influence.

Malavika Legge, creator of this new Wayfinders series and author of OASPA’s posts on Equity in OA will introduce and chair this webinar which includes the following speakers:

1. Nathaniel Gore, PeerJ

2. Stacey Burke, American Physiological Society (APS)

3. Kellie O’Rourke, Cambridge University Press