As research funders and institutions are expanding open access requirements, and business models become increasingly complex and diverse, how do stakeholders navigate the open access research and publishing maz...

You may remember us proudly announcing ‘We’re live!’ back in our January 2021 blog post. In this year-end post, we’re delighted to share how, together with our founding partners, launch customers and other stak...

The OA Switchboard is live and we're well on track in the first year of our 2021-2022 'launch phase'. There is so much to share on how and why we came about, how our core principles ensure sustainability, how w...

Open access is opening research up to the world. Academics, institutions, funders, and publishers are committed to ensuring that research is available and accessible to all. But delivering this is not without c...

OA Switchboard is a mission-driven, practical solution that thrives on collaboration. We referred to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) throughout 2020 while we were designing a sustainable ...

with contributions from Stacey Burke (American Physiological Society), Colleen Campbell (Max Planck Digital Library, ESAC, OA2020), Todd Carpenter (NISO), Helen Dobson (Jisc), Matthew Goddard (Iowa State Univer...

The OA Switchboard reached an impressive milestone at the start of this month: 100,000 exchanges of OA article metadata from publishers to research funders, institutions, and consortia. Why is this important? B...

Authoritative data from source & connecting and complementing existing systems and solutions As we see the growth in Open Access output, the need to develop infrastructure to streamline communication between re...

Last week members of the OA Switchboard Books Working Group got together for the third time since its inception last year, to continue dialogues on how OA Switchboard can deliver on its ambition and commitment ...