Research Institutions, Libraries and Consortia
Connect your research. Simplify workflows.
The OA Switchboard is your neutral, community-led metadata hub - a safe, mission-driven space that brings together publishers, institutions, and funders. We aggregate authoritative, validated publication metadata so you don't have to track it all yourself.
Reporting made easy - Make better use of your metadata
Use OA Switchboard to automate alerts, enrich your systems, and enhance OA agreements management - using standardized data direct from publishers.
Why institutions, libraries, and consortia choose OA Switchboard?
Learn more about the benefits of partnering with OA Switchboard – or get in touch to explore next steps:
Trusted, standardized data
Consistent formats across multiple publishers
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Less manual work, more efficiency
Reduce time spent curating or collecting metadata
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Because it's the right thing to do
Community-first, trusted network, not-for-profit
What you can do with OA Switchboard
Institutions, libraries and consortia use the OA Switchboard to stay current and informed, enrich your data and systems, and enhance your OA agreements management. Here's how we help:
Stay current and informed
Catch every OA article as it's published
Get real-time, structured metadata alerts on articles affiliated with your institution, whether OA or non-OA. Across all OA models - whether under APC, non-APC, or transformative agreements. Track publication output. No manual searching or filtering.
"At the University of Kent we are constantly looking for ways to improve our OA workflows and are assessing data coming from different sources. Getting publication alerts via OA Switchboard directly into our enquiry management system is an enormous step forward."
Rosalyn Bass
Faculty Librarian (Research Support and Sciences)
University of Kent
Enrich your data and systems
Make your systems smarter with clean, timely metadata
Automatically populate your internal systems with clean, standardized scholarly communications metadata - no spreadsheets, no custom scripts per publisher. Reduce data entry workloads by feeding standardized data into CRIS, IRs, and library systems to create and/or complete records. Enrich analytics and visualization tools - automatically. Seamlessly integrate with third-party tools (e.g., HARRASSOWITZ Fokus).
"OA Switchboard enables us to comply with the revised Canadian Open Access Policy that will come into effect on the 1st of January 2026. The policy requires a.o. to deposit research articles, that received funding by one of the three Canadian agencies (CIHR, NSERC, SSHRC), in a Canadian institutional repository at the time of publication. The data provided via OA Switchboard are available sooner and have a better quality than from other platforms and APIs, thanks to the participating publishers."
Anita Mazur
Bibliothécaire Metadonnées
Polytechnique Montréal
"The structured publication metadata sent to us by publishers via OA Switchboard allows us to analyse how our authors are publishing OA in real time while also letting us explore OA publishing changes over time. This helps us to understand how to support OA on an institutional level."
Katherine Brooks
Collection Analysis Librarian
Columbia University Libraries
"CERN Scientific Information Service has been a supporter of the OA Switchboard since its start, and is happy to see how the project has grown with time.
Standardised and open metadata exchange is highly important to us, since it helps institutions to capture their research output and make it available Open Access."
Anne Gentil-Beccot
Open Science Coordinator
Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN)
Enhance your OA agreements management
Help track compliance and demonstrate value
Access actionable data to enhance your OA agreements management at both institutional and consortia levels. Enrich reporting on OA publishing against deals and integrate with tools and systems in use, or manual spreadsheets. Analysis for compliance and ROI, internal/external reporting, and decision support. Integrate with ERM tools like Consortia Manager for streamlined analysis and reporting.
The benefits of industry collaboration and technical integration illustrated on an example of a transformative agreement.
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CCC RightsLink, OA Switchboard and ConsortiaManager
"OA Switchboard makes OA publishing highly visible in a way it wasn’t in the past. Even if you can’t see an immediate application for it because you do not have enough OA deals, you may be surprised at the amount of OA publishing your researchers are producing."
Curtis Brundy
"This working relationship underscores Jisc’s commitment to driving a sustainable and equitable
transition to OA. Crucially, it will enable institutions to have a clearer, automated reporting of OA publications, and it will help foster the inclusion of more publishers in the transition to OA, regardless of size or business model."
Liam Earney
Managing Director
Joint Information Systems Committee (Jisc)