Voting members of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have

approved the formation of a Working Group to develop a Recommended Practice for operationalizing open access (OA) business processes. NISO is seeking members from across the information community to join the Working Group, which will address the

lack of infrastructure supporting OA content by helping stakeholders in scholarly communications to track, assess, and report on OA publications, authors, and funding more easily. Read more here.

The alignment among stakeholders orchestrated by OA Switchboard over the years, as well as the resulting standardised 'message protocols', have been welcome and relevant input in the process so far, and will be further developed on in the Working Group.