OA Switchboard
central information exchange hub

Enabling fulfilment of OA publication-level arrangements

The independent intermediary, connecting parties and systems, streamlining communication and the neutral exchange of OA related publication-level information, and ensuring a financial settlement can be done

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shared infrastructure - standards - integration

The OA Switchboard provides direct, indirect and community benefits:

Simplicity & Transparency
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Collaboration & Inter-operability
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Efficiency & Cost-effectiveness

The eco-system to work better for everyone: learn, adjust and progress

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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, 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, Oxford University Press, PLOS, Portland Press (owned by the Biochemical Society), Rockefeller University Press, Royal Society of Chemistry, The Company of Biologists, The Royal Society and Thieme Group
  
  

• Institutions/consortia: California Digital Library, CERN, Consortium Luxembourg / BNL National Library of Luxembourg (6 institutions), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Iowa State, Jisc (18 institutions), Max Planck Digital Library, The Weizmann Institute of Science, University of Stockholm and VSNU/UKB (7 institutions)
  
  

• Funders: Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Dutch Research Council (NWO), FNR Luxembourg National Research Fund, 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.