Supporting academic-led journals to increase the visibility of their OA output among research funders, libraries, and consortia.

Publishers using Janeway to manage the researcher-to-reader workflow for submission, peer review, and production of scholarly articles, can now easily connect to OA Switchboard with a new Janeway plug-in. With the plug-in installed, articles published will seamlessly and immediately be reported to relevant institutions and research funders. The relevant metadata will automatically be extracted on article level and pushed to the stakeholders in the standardised OA Switchboard message structure format.

This plug-in increases the visibility of publications to relevant stakeholders, makes reporting on OA output easier, improves discoverability, and eases integrations with downstream systems. As a bonus, the publishers will benefit from enhanced management information and better opportunities for portfolio management, as well as greater insights into their stakeholders and authors.

The plug-in, developed open source by the Open Library of Humanities, will soon be available on Github. The development has been made possible by funding from the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL), Michigan Publishing Services, University of Michigan Library and Iowa State University Library.

Ádám Dér, Head of Scientific Information Services at the MPDL, says: "We are thrilled to support the development of the OA Switchboard Janeway plug-in. Investing in practical tools that create transparency between publishers, funders, and institutions brings us closer to the Max Planck Society’s vision of a barrier-free scholarly publishing ecosystem and reflects our diversified approach to achieving openness."

Jason Colman, Michigan Publishing Services, University of Michigan Library, says: “As a small mission-driven publisher using Janeway, the OA Switchboard plug-in will give us a powerful new way to make the impact of our journals easy to understand for those who support and fund them – a task that we just didn’t have the resources to do until now.“

Matthew Goddard, Iowa State University Library, says: "We're proud to support the development of this tool, which increases the visibility of the great publishing being done by small open presses like our own ISU Digital Press."

About Janeway:

Janeway is an open-source digital publishing platform developed in 2017 by the Open Library of Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London. Designed to support the full scholarly publishing workflow, from submission and peer review to production and publication, Janeway offers modern, standards-compliant features and integrates with services like Crossref and ORCID. Licensed under the AGPL, it is freely available for self-hosting or as a hosted service, and is used by many journals and institutions worldwide seeking a flexible, transparent, and sustainable publishing solution.

About MPDLThe Max Planck Digital Library is a central unit of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (MPG) and supports all researchers of the MPG with expert digital services. One of Europe's largest research libraries, the MPDL provides easy access to scientific literature, data, commercial software licenses, scientific communication tools and services, and research-relevant software applications. The MPDL has a transformative impact on commercial product development and the scientific publishing market for the benefit of the MPG and science overall.

About Michigan Publishing Services, University of Michigan LibraryA division of the University of Michigan Library, MPS provides a suite of publishing-related services to the University of Michigan to help increase the visibility, reach, and impact of scholarship. An important part of MPS’s mission as a library-based publisher is to support other small scholarly publishers looking for an alternative to commercially-driven platforms. Toward this goal, they offer many of the hosting and production services we have developed for their own campus to mission-aligned partners through the Janeway and Fulcrum platforms.

About Iowa State University Library:

The Iowa State University Library is a signatory of the Open Access 2020 Initiative and is active in national and international efforts to advance open access. As part of a land-grant university with a mission to create, share, and apply knowledge to make Iowa and the world a better place, the University Library works to ensure the free dissemination and preservation of the university's research and scholarly outputs.

About OA Switchboard:

The OA Switchboard is a mission-driven, community led initiative designed to simplify the sharing of information between stakeholders about open access publications throughout the whole publication journey. It provides a standardised messaging protocol and shared infrastructure that is designed to operate and integrate with all stakeholder systems. It is built by and for the people who use it, and is leveraged with existing PID’s.