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By Siân Harris OASPA also aims to help allow immediate access and The UK’s JISC funding body
Open-access publishers now publishers share best practices circulation of peer-reviewed has selected 25 projects at UK
have their own industry body. and promote innovations manuscripts. Other individuals universities to receive £1.8m
The Open Access Scholarly such as use of OA in e-science and organisations who support of funding in the ‘Enrich
Publishers Association tools. or provide services for OA Digital Resources’ programme.
(OASPA) aims to champion Membership in OASPA journals publishing or who The projects aim to improve
the causes of open-access is open to both scholarly are interested in exploring existing digital content and
(OA) publishers. publishers and professional opportunities can also join the to digitise new materials
‘We want to bring together publishing organisations, organisation. for sustainable access in the
the community of OA including university presses ‘We are trying to have a future.
publishers, advance the and for profit and non-profit common interpretation of The projects will run from
OA model and continue to organisations. Voting members OA,’ said Sutton. ‘There October 2008 until 2009. After
advocate gold OA publishing,’ are expected to demonstrate used to be the idea that OA this time all the enhanced
said Caroline Sutton, publisher a genuine interest in OA was an anomaly but moves or newly-digitised content
of Co-Action Publishing. journals publishing by having such as Springer’s purchase of will be freely available via
‘We also want to set industry signed either the Berlin or BioMed Central and SAGE’s the internet, in efforts to
standards as some aspects of Budapest Declarations, and partnership with Hindawi be as useful as possible to
the OA model are different must publish at least one full show that it is now much more international research and
from the subscriptions model.’ OA journal. They must also mainstream.’ learning communities.
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