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class="elementor-widget-container"> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p>OASPA collaborates with the<a href="http://publicationethics.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Committee on Publication Ethics</a>, <a href="https://doaj.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DOAJ</a> and the<a href="http://www.wame.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> World Association of Medical Editors</a> to define the principles of transparency and best practice in scholarly publishing.</p> <p>These principles feed into the criteria on which all applications for OASPA membership are evaluated.</p> <p>To ensure consistently high standards in open access publishing and among our members, the <a href="https://www.oaspa.org/about/who-we-are/our-board/">OASPA Board</a> reviews and revises the criteria regularly.</p> <p><a href="https://www.oaspa.org/membership/current-members/">Our members</a> must always demonstrate that they continue to meet these criteria and that they abide by our <a 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</ul> </li> <li>Any direct marketing activities, including solicitation of manuscripts, must be carried out in accordance with the <a href="https://www.oaspa.org/membership/code-of-conduct/">OASPA Code of Conduct</a>.</li> <li>Your advertising policy must: <ul> <li>be stated clearly.</li> <li>include what types of advertisements will be considered.</li> <li>include who makes decisions regarding accepting ads.</li> <li>include whether ads are linked to content, or reader behaviour, or are displayed at random.</li> </ul> </li> <li>Business models and revenue sources should be clear, including major sources of support for publishing operations in general, for example from institutions, funding agencies or commercial organisations.</li> </ul> <h3>Basic criteria for all publishing organisations</h3> <p>During the application review process, we will sometimes contact editorial board members and/or authors to determine whether content and editorial practices are rigorous.</p> <ul> <li>Your website must: <ul> <li>display affiliations (department, institution, country) for all editors and editorial board members.</li> <li>state if any fees are charged. If there are no charges this must also be stated.</li> <li>clearly indicate the process for electronic backup and digital preservation of published content (for example via CLOCKSS or PubMedCentral).</li> <li>not contain misleading information, including any attempt to mimic another journal or publisher.</li> </ul> </li> <li>Your published content: <ul> <li>can be read <a href="https://www.oaspa.org/membership/code-of-conduct/">without requiring registration of any kind</a>.</li> <li>displays the date of publication, the licence and a copyright statement.</li> <li>displays information to enable correct citation.</li> </ul> </li> <li>Your author guidelines: <ul> <li>are linked to from your homepage.</li> <li>are easy to find and read.</li> <li>include details of <ul> <li>your open access policy.</li> <li>your licensing policies, including links to the Creative Commons license terms.</li> <li>your copyright policy, including whether or not the author retains copyright.</li> <li>your peer review process.</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li>The license(s) that you apply to published works must be <ul> <li>stated on the website.</li> <li>included in all versions of the full text.</li> </ul> </li> <li>Your peer review process and policies must: <ul> <li>be clearly stated on the website (including the role of editors and editorial board in the process, what happens when peer review reports come in, whether the author can respond and who makes decision to accept/reject).</li> <li>include independent external reviewing, appropriate for the subject, by experts in the field who are not part of the publisher鈥檚 editorial staff. Owners of companies should not be involved in editorial decision making.</li> </ul> </li> <li>Your editorial process and policies must: <ul> <li>be stated clearly on the website.</li> <li>cover publication ethics.</li> <li>include handling potential<a href="http://www.icmje.org/conflicts-of-interest/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> conflicts of interest</a> of editors, authors and reviewers.</li> <li>state a clear procedure, based on <a href="https://publicationethics.org/misconduct" target="_blank" rel="noopener">COPE鈥檚 guidelines</a> or equivalent, for dealing with any allegations of research misconduct.</li> <li>describe how you identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred. Editors should not encourage misconduct or allow misconduct to take place.</li> </ul> </li> <li>Publishers depositing their citation data with Crossref must make that data openly available as per the Initiative for Open Citations.</li> </ul> <h3>Extra criteria for journal publishers</h3> <ul> <li>At least one of your journals must be a fully open access journal that only uses a<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> CC BY</a> or <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC BY-NC</a> license. (See our <a href="https://www.oaspa.org/about/faqs/">licensing FAQs</a>).</li> <li>At least one journal must be listed in <a href="https://doaj.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DOAJ</a>.</li> <li>Your website must state: <ul> <li>How frequently papers are published.</li> </ul> </li> <li>Your journals must have editorial boards (or similar) <ul> <li>that are large enough to support the journal.</li> <li>whose members are recognised, active experts in the field.</li> </ul> </li> <li>Your articles must display: <ul> <li>Submission, acceptance and publication dates.</li> <li>Author contact information.</li> <li>The licence and a copyright statement.</li> </ul> </li> <li>If fees are charged, there must be a waiver policy that is easy to find and clearly stated.</li> <li>Any pricing differences related to different licenses or copyright must be transparent and clearly displayed. <ul> <li>OASPA may ask for information on the reasoning for your chosen license policy if restrictions apply.</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h3>Extra criteria for book publishers</h3> <ul> <li>You must use <a href="https://creativecommons.org/choose/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a Creative Commons license</a>.</li> </ul> <h3>Recommendations for publishing organisations</h3> <p>The following are recommendations for best practice but are not required criteria for membership. 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