Today the LYRASIS Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP) announces a new round of funding opportunities to support open access publishing by scholarly journals. The journals seeking investments in OACIP round two include Algebraic Combinatorics, History of Media Studies, and Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication. OACIP, a joint project between LYRASIS and Transitioning Society Publications to Open Access (TSPOA), is a community-driven framework … Continue reading Expanding the Open Access Community Investment Program
Announcing the Open Access Community Investment Program
We are thrilled to launch the Open Access Community Investment Program, a community-funded open access publishing project developed by LYRASIS, Transitioning Society Publications to Open Access (TSPOA), and Duke University Press. Our goal is to help match libraries, consortia, and other prospective scholarly publishing funders with non-profit publishers and journal editorial boards that are seeking … Continue reading Announcing the Open Access Community Investment Program
TSPOA: What have we been up to?
In February of 2018, we founded Transitioning Society Publications to Open Access (TSPOA) to provide support, advocacy, and referral services for societies and publishers of society journals. Our overarching aim has been to assist learned societies in transitioning their publications to open access (OA). In our first year-and-a-half the world has grappled with public health, … Continue reading TSPOA: What have we been up to?
Webinars charting paths forward for open access publishing by learned societies
The Society Publishers Coalition (SocPC) and Transitioning Society Journals to Open Access (TSPOA) invite you to register for free webinars about the changing face of society journal publishing. This three-part webinar series is intended to help foster the transition of learned society journals to open access by contextualizing their role within a changing scholarly communications … Continue reading Webinars charting paths forward for open access publishing by learned societies
Bridging Learned Society Publishing and Open Access: an International Collaboration and Webinar Series
Posted 13 August 2019, by TSPOA and SocPC Scholarly or learned societies enable geographically diverse scholars to build and engage with communities that share and discuss ideas and findings, with the aim of promoting knowledge exchange for social value and the common good. Traditionally, societies achieve this convening function through a subscription-based publishing model in … Continue reading Bridging Learned Society Publishing and Open Access: an International Collaboration and Webinar Series
Transitioning Society Publications to OA 