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Towards 100% open access: embracing complexity and building trust
Lara Speicher shares reflections from #OASPA2025 on why trust, diversity and collaboration are key.
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#OASPA2025 #OpenAccess

Very grateful for Danny Kingsley's comprehensive notes from #OASPA2025. See her LinkedIn posts summarising and commenting on this year's conference!

Read reflections on #OASPA2025 by @drachiarelli.bsky.social in Italian and with an English translation.
Multilingualism is just one of the many important considerations raised at the conference. Do share your own reflections #inyourownwords

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#OASPA2025 is over for another year. It was a wonderful 3 days in beautiful Leuven connecting with new friends and old in conversation and debate with dialogue throughout.
Recordings will be made available soon. Thanks to our sponsors, speakers, delegates and the staff of Irish College and OASPA.

We were delighted to take part in the OASPA 2025 Annual Conference, where our Chief Academic Officer, Dr Emily Choynowski, delivered a lightning talk on the evolving open access publishing landscape across the 22 Arab states.

#OASPA2025 #OpenAccess #DiamondOA #ScholarlyPublishing #ResearchEquity

Graph showing accumulation of LinkedIn impressions over the past week - reaching 7,798

INTEREST: presumably because of the #OASPA2025 summaries!

A nice quote from L'HarmattanOA @ #OASPA2025 on how we support them: "The international [book] distribution is managed by Thoth. Thanks to their persistent efforts our titles are submitted to several databases such as OAPEN&DOAB, EBSCO, ProQuest collections, Google Books, & Web of Science."

Scoping Review of Transformative Agreement Research Manuscript to be published in forthcoming issue of Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (University of Alberta Library)

My colleague Allison Langham-Putrow presented our scoping review research on transformative agreements this week at #OASPA2025. It's in-press at EBLIP (ETA December). Here is the preprint conservancy.umn.edu/items/1557f1...

HOME! just under exactly one week away at #OASPA2025 - left home 7.30pm last Friday, back 6.30pm this Friday. All up approx 60 hours in transit(!). Worth it. Great conference, great people, good ideas, beautiful location. Thanks OASPA!

I didn't get to say goodbye and thank you to @viroviacum.bsky.social , but I think we can all agree Leuven itself was the highlight of #OASPA2025!

#OASPA2025 folks, re: #OpenInfrastructure & imagining #ScholarlyPublishing futures conversations, especially if you wonder about #OpenBooks, this PKP interview w/ @joedeville.bsky.social might be of interest as you wind down the event experience ⤵️

@openbookcollective.bsky.social #OpenMonographPress

🔓📖 Moving beyond closed silos: Liberating workflows based on #OpenMetadata... #interoperable and open not-for-profit ecosystem for #OpenAccess books and chapters

With @thoth-metadata.bsky.social, @pkp.sfu.ca, #OBC, @oapenbooks.bsky.social ⤵️

#OASPA2025 convo @joedeville.bsky.social & at #Munin2025

OASPA 2025: The Who, The How, The Why and The When – De Boer Consultancy SARL / EURL

Reflections on a great series of conversations at #OASPA2025 on the who, how, why and when of reaching 100% open access deboerconsultancy.com/oaspa-2025-t...

FINAL summary notes for #OASPA2025 - www.linkedin.com/posts/dannyk...
and www.linkedin.com/posts/dannyk...

Thanks for a great conference folks!

Some reflections on the OASPA conference in Leuven: are we on the verge of a paradigm change? I was only able to attend one day of the OASPA conference in Leuven, but I’d like to share a few reflections. Throughout the sessions, presentations, and one-on-one conversations, I sometimes sensed a...

FWIW: I made some notes of a few of my observations following my one-day visit of the @oaspa.bsky.social conference this year in Leuven.

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FINAL NOTES from #OASPA2025 farewell and recognition of the work to put together such a great conference

IntechOpen team members at the historic Irish College Leuven, venue of the OASPA 2025 conference in Belgium.

Day 3 at #OASPA2025 and we’re loving every moment! Surrounded by inspiring voices from different stakeholders within the scholarly communication ecosystem, we’re engaging in discussions on how to achieve 100% #OpenAccess globally.
#IntechOpen

Anne: budget uncertainty is possibly even worse than budget cuts. Makes it harder to commit to some of the smaller committments, particularly as they are easier to get out of than the parts of our locked in budgets. Need to stop multi year deals so we have budget flexibility. #OASPA2025

RIO Journal 5 years on: over 300 published outcomes from all around the research cycle | Blog Five years on, the Open Science-driven journal Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) published an editorial that looks back on the 300 research ideas and research outcomes it has published so far. Since i...

👂We hear that recognising & opening up #research outputs beyond #research articles has come up multiple times at #OASPA2025.

🫣We suspect there are those not yet aware of our #openscience #journal: optimising #scholarly #communication for research ideas, grant proposals, guidelines etc.

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Tracking the Use of Open Educational Resources Sounds Simple. It Isn’t. We set out to determine whether open monographs were being used in teaching and learning and fell down a very deep hole. Here is what we learned.

Danny - OAPEN books are by definition not textbooks, but we know they are being used for teaching & learning. Conclusion (in Katina article): need a system like COUNTER for eBooks. katinamagazine.org/content/arti... #OASPA2025

Anne Houston: checking out physical books at Swarthmore College Library has dropped to just a quarter of what it used to be 15 years ago. We’re close to seeing the disappearance of physical print books in academic publishing altogether #OASPA2025

Q: let's talk OA monographs. Anne - we are seeing a huge decline in the usage of print books, but OA eBooks are *used*, we know they have impact. OA books are able to be more experimental ie, Fulcrum developed tech for Lever to have French book with English translation & commentary. #OASPA2025

Anne Houston reminds us at #OASPA2025 how hard it is for librarians to get usage data out of commercial academic publishers. We need data & stories about where & how open research is being read & engaged with.

Anne- what we need from publishers is transparency, and evidence of impact. Explain to us why you need the money you do. Seems overly difficult to get/ understand usage - need both data and user stories about impact. Helps make case to administration. #OASPA2025

@dannykay68.bsky.social the "negotiations" with publishers are ridiculous and they are coming to us in bad faith - constant grind of dishonest conversation with increases beyond our budget increases, new terms and restrictions, embargoes with no evidence, etc. #OASPA2025

Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social telling a room full of publishers that the lack of good faith in R&P agreements has to stop. What planet are commercial publishers living on? Constant grind for library staff to deal with what she describes as this “garbage”. #OASPA2025

How Librarians are Advancing Open Book Publishing at the Lever Press The Lever Press, an initiative led cooperatively by libraries and librarians, offers a compelling model for the publication of open access books

Resharing as Anne Houston (Swarthmore College Libraries & Lever Press) is speaking on the #OASPA2025 panel

✏️ The library at the heart of the open access transition

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Anne Houston (Swarthmore College Libraries & Lever Press) - Liberal Arts college with focus on undergrad, mostly funded by endowment (60%!). Research (not R1 or R2) - in US, of ~4000 Unis classified by Carnegie, ~3400 of them are not classified as research. #OASPA2025

Arjan - Green & TAs are not the only route, since 2023 investing diamond. Move to CC-BY. Data Hub from various sources. Do OA as a service - "Library, please fix this" - needs to be more collaboration to really be fully part of process. #OASPA2025

Arjan Schalken (UKB) - NLs at about 95% OA, some institutions close to 97%. The Taverne Amendment (SPR) wasn't being used - got legal counsel so it could be used - all Unis collaborated. Started as opt in, now is opt out. Library helps. #OASPA2025