RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS,
LIBRARIES AND CONSORTIA
For institutions who want to connect with their research and simplify their workflows; as an intermediary, the OA Switchboard simplifies the sharing of information between publishers, institutions and funders: authoritative, timely, aggregated and validated publication metadata. This reduces the transactional cost for stakeholders, because it is a safe space for publication metadata, as mission-driven, not-for-profit, community-led initiative.
REPORTING MADE EASY
Participating institutions and consortia use the standardised data publishers sent to them via the OA Switchboard
for different purposes.
To stay current
and informed
To enrich your own data
and system
To enhance your OA
agreements management
STAY CURRENT AND INFORMED
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Get alerted to OA articles coming out of your institution
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Receive insights into all OA types–non-APC models and non-deal publishers
"At the University of Kent we are constantly looking for ways to improve our OA workflows and are assessing data coming from different sources. Getting publication alerts via OA Switchboard directly into our enquiry management system is an enormous step forward."
Rosalyn Bass,
Research and Scholarly Communication Support Manager
University of Kent
ENRICH YOUR OWN DATA AND SYSTEMS
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Create and/or complete records for your Institutional Repository (IR) or other institutional research information
management systems -
Integrate with your own data analysis approaches and visualization tools
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P1-messages feeding into HARRASSOWITZ Fokus or other library systems
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OA Switchboard enables us to comply with the revised Canadian Open Access Policy that will come into effect on the 1st of January 2026. The policy requires a.o. to deposit research articles, that received funding by one of the three Canadian agencies (CIHR, NSERC, SSHRC), in a Canadian institutional repository at the time of publication. The data provided via OA Switchboard are available sooner and have a better quality than from other platforms and APIs, thanks to the participating publishers."
Anita Mazur,
Bibliothécaire spécialisée des
Services techniques – métadonnées
The structured publication metadata sent to us by publishers via OA Switchboard allows us to analyse how our authors are publishing OA in real time while also letting us explore OA publishing changes over time. This helps us to understand how to support OA on an institutional level."
Katherine Brooks,
Columbia University Libraries
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ENHANCE YOUR OA AGREEMENTS MANAGEMENT
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Analysis for compliance and ROI, internal/external reporting, and decision support
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Integration into your own tools and systems, or manual in spreadsheets
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P1-messages feeding into ConsortiaManager or other ERM
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The structured publication metadata sent to us by publishers via OA Switchboard allows us to analyse how our authors are publishing OA in real time while also letting us explore OA publishing changes over time. This helps us to understand how to support OA on an institutional level."
Katherine Brooks,
Columbia University Libraries
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WHY DO RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS, LIBRARIES, AND CONSORTIA PARTICIPATE?
More details on what institutions gain by partnering with the OA Switchboard here
Verified consistent data format
from multiple publishers
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Reduce manual efforts
& increase efficiency
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Because it's the
right thing to do...
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