for research institutions, libraries and consortia
who want to:
connect with their research and simplify their workflows
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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.
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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
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"It’s great to see that an Exeter author has benefited from OA publishing through Berghahn Open Anthro.
We would not have known about this article if it was not for the OA Switchboard notification."
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Librarian, University of Exeter
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Create and/or complete records for your Institutional Repository (IR), or other institutional research information management systems
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Integrate with your own data analysis approaches and visualization tools
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P1-messages feeding into HARRASSOWITZ Fokus, or other library systems
"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
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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."
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Katherine Brooks, Columbia University Libraries
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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 (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."
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Katherine Brooks, Columbia University Libraries
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Why join?
Validated consistent data format from multiple publishers
Reduce (manual) efforts & increase efficiency
Because it's the right thing to do...
More details on what institutions gain by partnering with the OA Switchboard here