On this last day of the year we celebrate that in 2024 we reached the milestone of 1 million messages sent, further built the Data Quality Challenge with the community and have been conducting the OA Books Pilot. We proudly share our 31 December 2024 statistics with you: 

​>1,125,000 messages were sent via OA Switchboard since the go-live (1 January 2021) 

(‘messages’ = standardised sets of publication-level metadata) 

The vast majority were sent by participating publishers to research funders and institutions/consortia to support the Reporting Made Easy use case (so-called P1-messages). In 2024 the number of publishers reporting via the standardised protocol grew from 29 to 36 publishers, with another 5 publishers in the process of going live.   

To date, 18 (national) consortia and multi-site participants (jointly representing hundreds of sites/members) are connected to OA Switchboard. In addition, 208 individual research institutions/libraries and research funders have operational accounts in OA Switchboard. In total, over 29,700 organisations are set-up to receive messages via OA Switchboard.  

In 2024, our participants continued to build a fantastic community of like-minded spirits focused on a mission. We’re also grateful for our founding partners, certified partners (sponsors), certified integrators, and our tech partner for 5 years, and thank them all. 

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For an overview of all participants, check here. 

For an overview of all 2024 news, read here.