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Webinars to present the OA Switchboard to the wider community
Updated 19 November 2020 / Posted 30 October 2020
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Webinars are being organised to present the OA Switchboard to the wider community, supported by demonstrations/presentations of real-life use cases by launching customers.​
Tuesday 8 December 2020
The OA Switchboard is a tool that can be called upon as and when needed, or integrated in stakeholders’ own systems and workflows to achieve automation and scalability. This webinar brings together participants from publishers, research institutions and our tech partner to present and discuss real-life use cases. Learn what specific challenge they implement the OA Switchboard for and how a simple communication hub can handle many different situations.
The short five-minute case study presentations will be followed by a Q&A. Join us live to find out all about the OA Switchboard, how it could help your organisation, and to ask any questions you may have.
Link to the registration page here.Thursday 5 November 2020
Part of the OASPA AGM will also be given to an update on the OA Switchboard project which OASPA has been leading this year. In this webinar we’ll present a status update and insight into our plans. Also, some of our early adopters will present specific use cases they are getting started with in 2021.The recording of this part of the meeting is available here.2021
More webinars will be organised to present the OA Switchboard to the wider community. Details will follow.
Annual Publishing Conference 2020 (Rave Technologies)
Panel on Cross-Publisher OA Logistics
posted 17 November 2020
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The OA Switchboard will participate in a panel on Wednesday 9 December 2020 on facilitating Open Access in a publisher-neutral manner.
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The full program of the conference is here.
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This is a highly focused summit for publishing technologists, product specialists and senior publishing stakeholders, where the most actual insights on the current digital publishing challenges are presented.
Academic Publishing in Europe Conference (APE2021): The New Face of Trust
"From complexity to transparency: How the OA Switchboard is building a cost-effective collaborative infrastructure solution for an OA-driven scholarly communications landscape"
posted 17 November 2020
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The OA Switchboard will participate in the 2021 Academic Publishing in Europe Conference, by means of a presentation on Wednesday 13 January 2021. The title of the presentation is: From complexity to transparency: How the OA Switchboard is building a cost-effective collaborative infrastructure solution for an OA-driven scholarly communications landscape.
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The full program of APE2021 is here.
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The theme of the conference is: The New Face of Trust.
OASPA founds new organisation with future-proof governance and funding structure for the OA Switchboard
A neutral, independent intermediary enabling shared infrastructure, bringing transparency, efficiency and cost effectiveness to the open access ecosystem
CNI Fall Virtual Membership Meeting (November 10-December 15, 2020)
"From toll roads to highways: How the OA Switchboard is building the infrastructure for an OA-driven scholarly communications landscape"
posted 3 November 2020
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The OA Switchboard will participate in the 2020 CNI Fall Virtual Membership Meeting by means of a Short Update (pre-recorded video) to be made available during Week 3 (December 1-7, 2020).
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The theme of week 3 is: Technology, Standards, & Infrastructure
2nd Basel Sustainable Publishing Forum - The Global Transition to Open Access: Challenges and Solutions
"How did we get here? How to move on? How is the OA Switchboard helping?"
Posted 29 October 2020
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OA Switchboard participated in this virtual conference on 26-27 October 2020: 2nd Basel Sustainable Publishing Forum - The Global Transition to Open Access: Challenges and Solutions.
The title of the paper was: How did we get here? How to move on? How is the OA Switchboard helping?
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The recording is available here.
Posted 29 september 2020
API integration workshop (26 August 2020)
Posted 28 August 2020
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We’re now in the middle of the Pilot. One of the topics to prove is that we deliver the basics (standards & essential infrastructure). Specifically for, and with, the stakeholders’ partners, we recently organised a very well attended interactive workshop, about technical integration of the OA Switchboard API with these other systems, value-adding solutions on top, so the ambition of an automated, integrated, scalable solution will be achieved.
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-- Questions -- Challenges -- Suggestions --
Watch the brainstorm animation here: Where do you see potential challenges with the technical integration to the OA Switchboard?
Demonstration videos of Minimum Viable Product (MVP)/iteration #6
Posted 7 August 2020
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6.1 Compose Eligibility Enquiry (E1) message - no prior agreement
6.2 Compose Eligibility Enquiry (E1) message - prior agreement
6.3 Compose Publication/Payment Settlement Notification (P1) from an existing message (pre-populated)
6.4 Respond to an E1 message with an E2 message - prior agreement
6.5 Respond to an E1 message with an E2 message (partial accept) - no prior agreement
6.6 Reporting: monitoring and tracking predicted/committed OA spend and publication numbers and details
Posted 30 July 2020
Demonstration videos of intermediate delivery iteration #5
Demonstration videos of intermediate delivery iteration #4
Posted 7 July 2020
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4.1 Compose Eligibility Enquiry message - prior agreement
4.2 Compose Eligibility Enquiry message - no prior agreement
4.3 Compose Publication/Payment Settlement Notification message & edit and resend
4.4 Read and respond to Eligibility Enquiry message (prior and no prior agreement)
Demonstration videos of intermediate delivery iteration #3
Posted 1 June 2020
Announced 4 May 2020
Posted 31 March 2020
Issued 18 March 2020
Posted 31 January 2020
Published 12 February 2019