[BOAI] OASPA Agreement with CrossRef on behalf of Scholar Publishers

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from Caroline Sutton, via LibLicense.  --Peter Suber.]


OASPA Agreement with CrossRef on behalf of Scholar Publishers

OASPA is pleased to announce that we have come to an agreement with CrossRef
 on an Association-sponsored membership on behalf of our scholar publishers.
The  agreement enables our scholar publisher members to register Digital
Object  Identifiers (DOIs) without needing to become individual members of
CrossRef. All scholar publisher members of OASPA may now register up to 50
DOIs per year, at  no charge.

The use of DOIs is a standard OASPA wishes to promote. DOIs are important in
an  electronic environment as they provide individual articles with a
permanent  'home' (a post office box, if you like), which remains constant
regardles of  whether URL locations should be altered. The cost of
participating in CrossRef  has been a barrier earlier for many scholar
publishers and we believe this  agreement will make it easier for this group
to ensure visibility for the work  they publish.

Scholar publishers who are already members of OASPA should contact
info at oaspa.org for more information. To join OASPA and take advantage of
this  opportunity, visit our website at www.oaspa.org .

For more about CrossRef, see http://www.crossref.org/

On behalf of the OASPA board,
Caroline Sutton, President

Caroline Sutton, PhD
Publisher
Co-Action Publishing
www.co-action.net

President
Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA
www.oaspa.org
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