Cambridge University Press, IntechOpen and University of Michigan Press to send standardized notifications upon book and chapter publication to targeted research funders and institutions

OA Switchboard, which supports all business models, policies, and types of scholarly output, is announcing the launch of its books solution, which is now operational. Following the 2023–2024 pilot for OA Books, the solution is going live in October 2025 with the first three publishers: Cambridge University Press, IntechOpen, and University of Michigan Press.

The books solution marks an important step toward a comprehensive solution designed to improve workflows, increase the visibility of publications, support book policies, and enable integration with the wider research and publishing ecosystem. It covers both open access and non-open access books, ensuring that all types of scholarly books can benefit from a standardized and transparent communication framework.

As an independent intermediary, OA Switchboard provides a trusted environment for the exchange of publication metadata, simplifying communication between publishers, funders, and institutions while reducing transactional costs for all parties.

Through their ONIX feeds, the three publishers will now automatically connect with OA Switchboard and notify relevant research funders and institutions when a book or chapter authored by their grantees or researchers is published.

For research funders and institutions, OA Switchboard provides real-time, structured metadata alerts on book and chapter publications linked to their organizations. This helps them stay informed, track publication output without manual searching, and enrich internal systems with standardized metadata. The solution reduces data entry workloads and strengthens analytics, visualization, and reporting through automated data exchange.

Want to know more?

Come, talk to us to explore how OA Switchboard can support your organization!

Yvonne Campfens, Executive Director OA Switchboard, yvonne.campfens@oaswitchboard.org

Randy Kiefer, Customer Engagement Specialist, randy.kiefer@oaswitchboard.org

About Cambridge University Press 

Cambridge University Press is the academic and Bibles publisher of Cambridge University Press & Assessment. It publishes books and journals, serving customers in higher education through research, education products and services. It is part of the University of Cambridge, delivering trusted research and learning materials that spread knowledge, spark curiosity and aid understanding of the world we live in. www.cambridge.org/universitypress 

About IntechOpen

Born from a desire to make publishing more relevant for the digital age, IntechOpen, a pioneer in open access, has grown into one of the world’s leading open access book publishers. Since 2005, IntechOpen has published a catalogue of over 7,700 open access books specialising in science, technology and medicine, comprising more than 86,600 chapters written by an international community of nearly 200,000 researchers. Built on the belief that scientific progress thrives on collaboration, IntechOpen is dedicated to openly sharing research worldwide and making knowledge freely and permanently available to all. More information at: https://intechopen.com/about-intechopen

About University of Michigan Press

University of Michigan Press publishes award-winning books in the humanities and qualitative social sciences from its base in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. The Press, founded in 1930, publishes approximately 80 scholarly monographs annually. Its Fund to Mission program now enables 75% of its frontlist to be made immediately OA every year, thanks to a combination of funding sources. A critical pillar of the Fund to Mission program is collective support from 250 libraries, whose investments ensure that author-side funding is never required for OA publication—although it is requested when possible. More information at https://press.umich.edu/Open-Access

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.