OA Switchboard
central information exchange hub

The OA Switchboard is a mission-driven, community led initiative designed to simplify the sharing of information between stakeholders about open access publications throughout the whole publication journey.

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--- a safe space for publication metadata --- enabling fulfilment of OA publication-level arrangements ---

Trust

The independently managed, shared infrastructure provides a safe space for publication metadata.

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Collaboration

The standardised protocol allows for the transparent exchange of data about OA publications, designed to operate and integrate with all stakeholder systems.

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Efficiency

It eases the administrative burden of maintaining many-to-many relationships, and managing OA compliance. It reduces the sheer volume of manual information exchange.

Learn more in our latest video animation here

2021/2022 launch phase

The following organisations have confirmed their support as launch customers or founding partners:

• Publishers: AboutScience, American Physiological Society, Beilstein-Institut, Berghahn Books, Cambridge University Press, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Copernicus Publications, EDP Sciences, eLife, GigaScience Press, Hindawi, IGI Global, John Benjamins Publishing Company, JMIR Publications, Life Science Alliance, Microbiology Society, Openjournals.nl, Oxford University Press, PLOS, PNAS, Portland Press (owned by the Biochemical Society), Rockefeller University Press, Royal Society of Chemistry, The Company of Biologists, The Royal Society, The White Horse Press and Thieme Group
  
  

• Institutions/consortia: California Digital Library, CERN, Columbia University Libraries, Consortium Luxembourg / BNL National Library of Luxembourg (member institutions here), EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Iowa State University Library, Jisc (member institutions here), Max Planck Digital Library, The Rockefeller University, The Weizmann Institute of Science, University of Kassel, University of Stockholm and VSNU/UKB (member institutions here)
  
  

• Funders: Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Dutch Research Council (NWO), FNR Luxembourg National Research Fund, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UKRI and Wellcome Trust
  
  

• Launching sponsors: Aries Systems and Copyright Clearance Center

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OASPA is supportive and actively involved through a strategic partnership with the OA Switchboard.

The OA Switchboard initiative

The OA Switchboard initiative is a not-for-profit collaboration between funders, institutions and publishers. It is taking charge of multi-lateral OA publication-level arrangements. Read more here.

The OA Switchboard aims to reduce complexity and the administrative burden for all stakeholders (including, indirectly, the researcher) by streamlining the communication between funders, institutions and publishers, using authoritative data. And, strives for the research ecosystem to work better for researchers, funders, institutions and publishers, and their business partners, such that Open Access is supported as the predominant model of publication.

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The OA Switchboard is to support all OA business models (provided they preserve the integrity of scholarship), such as APC/BPC-based, membership arrangements, transformative agreements, subscribe-to-open, diamond. And, also all policies and types of scholarly output (like journals, books, proceedings).

Our open source solutions and the (communication) standards are developed in close collaboration with the funder-institution-publisher community, and their partners, such as providers of submission & peer review systems, payment solutions, and library management information services. We regularly report to and collaborate with representatives of all stakeholder groups. Blog posts are here and demo videos can be found here and opportunities to participate here.