OASPA welcomes new members

[Caroline Sutton <caroline.sutton@co-action.net>]

ANNOUNCEMENT

OASPA welcomes the International Union of Crystallography and 
Springer.

28 June 2010: OASPA welcomes two new members to the organization 
this month- the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) and 
Springer.

The learned society publisher IUCr publishes a total of eight 
peer reviewed journals, one of which is the highly popular open 
access title, Acta Crystallographica Section E. The journal has 
been open access since the start of 2008 and  publishes 
approximately 4500 articles per year.

In describribing the IUCr's open access program, Managing Editor 
Peter Strickland explains "As a small learned society publisher, 
working on behalf of crystallographers worldwide, our aim is to 
publish high-quality research articles and ensure that the 
articles and their associated data sets are widely read and used. 
We see open-acess publishing as a way of meeting this aim and, as 
a member of OASPA, look forward to learning from the experiences 
of other open-access publishers."

Springer's 2008 acquisition of BioMed Central marked the 
company's entrance into the full open access publishing arena. 
This action was followed by the introduction of an open access 
publishing program over the last couple of years under the 
publisher's own imprint, and today's announcement regarding 
SpringerOpen: a suite of open access journals across disciplines. 
Forthcoming titles under Springer Open will be published under a 
Creative Commons Attribution License.

Commenting on Springer's membership, Wim  van der Stelt, 
Executive Vice President of Business Development states,  "As the 
world's largest open access publisher, it is only logical that 
Springer has joined OASPA.  We will also continue to remain a 
committed member of the International Association of STM 
Publishers, as we see that both organizations can contribute to 
best practices."

"The growing OASPA membership represents an increasingly diverse 
set of publishers", according to OASPA President, Caroline 
Sutton, "This is important for forming standards and best 
practices that are viable across different types of publishing 
organizations, in different subject areas and in different 
geographic areas. The OASPA board is pleased to welcome these two 
new publishers and looks forward to working with them to develop 
open access publishing in their respective areas."

Caroline Sutton, PhD
Publisher
Co-Action Publishing