We are pleased to announce OASPA will hold a Webinar on Monday, 6 December 2021 (4pm - 5.15pm CET; 5pm - 6.15pm GMT; 10am - 11.15am EST) on the subject of Fully Open Access Agreements--agreements between research institutions and fully OA publishers enabling a complete transition to fully accessible content. Such agreements have a great deal to offer to institutions in terms of simplified workflows, author choice and compliance with funders' requirements.

The webinar is organized by the OASPA Fully OA Journal Publishers Interest Group. It aims to address audiences from OASPA, as well as librarians and the wider scholarly communications community.

The publishers within the group acknowledge the pivotal role that institutions and libraries play in supporting open access and informing scientists about the options available to them. This collaboration aims to strengthen the support which further enables gold open access publishing.

The following panelists will each offer their own perspective on the topic:

• Jennifer Gibson, Executive Director, Dryad (Chair)
• Wilhelm Widmark, Library Director, Stockholm University
• Sharla Lair, Senior Strategist, OA  & Scholarly Communication Initiatives, Lyrasis
• Wolfgang Benedikt Schmal, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Heinrich-Heine-University

We cordially invite you to join the free webinar by registering here.

About the OASPA Fully OA Journal Publishers Interest Group

The group of Open Access publishers first took shape at the 2019 OASPA Conference in Copenhagen, during an informal exchange of views on the state of the transition to Open Access in scholarly publishing. The involved Fully OA publishers identified a common set of values and a shared view of how to support communities in progressing towards a fully Open Access world. Six of the signatories of the current guest post released a joint position paper in March 2020, making the point that 'transformative agreements' were lacking the binding commitment to a full transformation to Open Access and adding to bureaucratic burden, by forcing all the consortia to reach agreements with every single publisher.

Contact: Oliver Hill, MDPI Institutional Open Access Program Manager (email)