Live Participants / Messaging
Launch customers and founding partners
A complete overview of our launch customers and founding partners can be found here.
Live participants
Participants are those with an active account in OA Switchboard (sending, receiving and responding to 'messages'):
Use cases
Our partners are happy to share how they benefit from the OA Switchboard and to present use cases. Some examples are presented here:
More detailed use cases are here.
Statistics
Statistics on number of messages sent and number of live participants are here.
Live consortia and research institutions/libraries
Consortia and multi-site participants:
California Digital Library
Consortium Luxembourg / BNL National Library of Luxembourg
Jisc
Max Planck Digital Library
VSNU/UKB
Individual research institutions/libraries are listed here.
Individual research institutions/libraries:
California Digital Library (multiple sites)
CERN
Columbia University Libraries
Consortium Luxembourg / BNL National Library of Luxembourg (consortium account with members):
--- Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg
--- Luxembourg Institute of Health
--- Luxembourg Institute of Science & Technology
--- Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research
--- Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European & Regulatory Procedural Law
--- University of Luxembourg
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Iowa State University Library
Jisc (consortium account with members):
--- Brunel University London
--- De Montfort University
--- Francis Crick Institute
--- Imperial College
--- Lancaster University
--- London South Bank University
--- Queen’s University Belfast
--- Royal Veterinary College
--- University College London
--- University of Aston
--- University of Bath
--- University of Birmingham
--- University of Bristol
--- University of Cambridge
--- University of Exeter
--- University of Manchester
--- University of Northumbria
--- University of Plymouth
--- University of Sheffield
--- University of Strathclyde
--- University of Stirling
--- University of Winchester
Max Planck Digital Library (multiple sites)
The Weizmann Institute of Science
University of Stockholm
VSNU/UKB (consortium account with members):
--- Delft University of Technology
--- Eindhoven University of Technology
--- Leiden University
--- Leiden University Medical Center
--- University of Amsterdam
--- University of Groningen
--- University of Twente
--- University of Utrecht
Live academic publishers
AboutScience
American Physiological Society
Beilstein-Institut
Berghahn Books
Cambridge University Press
Copernicus Publications
eLife
Hindawi
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Microbiology Society
Oxford University Press
Portland Press (owned by the Biochemical Society)
Rockefeller University Press
Royal Society of Chemistry
The Company of Biologists
The Royal Society
Live research funders
Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
FNR Luxembourg National Research Fund
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Use Cases - Consortia and research institutions/libraries
California Digital Library
Support University of California's multi-payer model, and standardise the approach to tracking publications and spend
See more in the September 2021 webinar (recording here)
Use Cases - Academic Publishers
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Use Cases - Research Funders
Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Compliance monitoring and cost monitoring: mandatory grant information and standardised reporting
See more in the March 2021 webinar (recording here)
Use Cases
Microbiology Society: reporting use case
Provide article-level metrics of all Open Access (OA) articles published by the Society’s six journals, to stakeholders, when, where and however they need
Challenge
P&R clients expect our reports to meet certain industry templates and standards. Our data are to be sourced from multiple internal systems and data feeds. To build full article life cycle metadata, a-synchronous data need to dealt with. And then, feeding this all automatically into the OA Switchboard API in the standard message structure.
Solution
Our Microbiology Society 'custom connector' (with private data store), combining data from several internal sources and turning these into the standardised OA Switchboard P1-messages. Recipients benefit from direct alerts upon VoR publication and article-level authoritative data from the source (=us, the publisher), in a standard messaging protocol. Aggregated, these provide standardised reports. The messages/reports can be fed straight into existing systems for further processing and analysis.
See more in the September 2021 webinar (recording here)
Results
We are operational with all message types and scenario’s, and by mid-September 2021 we sent over 9,000 message since go-live.
Microbiology Society use case 2: supporting authors
Support authors in their publication journey and help them find options to pay for the OA publication charges
Challenge
If not covered under a P&R deal (see our first use case), an author's decision to publish their article OA may be influenced by timely clarification if and how the direct publication charges can be covered by their research funder or institution. How to reach out to the holders of such publication funds, and check if the submission meets their requirements?
Solution
Our Microbiology Society 'custom connector' (with private data store), combining data from several internal sources and turning these into the standardised OA Switchboard E1-messages. These Eligibility Enquiries are sent to the author's affiliated institution early in the editorial process, so there is ample time to align the situation with the author.
See more in the September 2021 webinar (recording here)
Results
We are operational with all message types and scenario’s, and by mid-September 2021 we sent over 9,000 message since go-live.
