ANNOUNCEMENT
Now available: OA Switchboard OJS plug-in
Supporting diamond journals to increase the visibility of their OA output among research funders, libraries, and consortia
Issued 5 November 2024
Publishers using PKP’s Open Journal Systems (OJS) 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 OJS 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 Lepidus Tecnologia, and with Openjournals.nl as testing partner, will soon be available from the PKP Plugin Gallery. The development has been made possible by funding from the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL).
Ádám Dér, Head of Scientific Information Services at the MPDL, says: "The MPDL is proud to contribute to the development of open infrastructure that facilitates the streamlining of processes in the ever-complex world of open academic publishing. In line with the Max Planck Society's vision of barrier-free access to scientific knowledge, we remain dedicated to creating the conditions for open scholarly processes for our researchers and the global scientific community. We're honored to support the creation of a plug-in that enables standardised OA reporting for OJS publishers via the OA Switchboard, which also elevates their position and visibility among libraries, consortia, and funders."
About Lepidus Tecnologia
Founded in 2010, in Florianópolis (Brazil), Lepidus specializes in developing information technology solutions for the academic and scientific community. With an experienced team in both open source software development and cloud solutions, Lepidus has crafted numerous plugins for platforms such as OJS, Open Monograph Press (OMP), and Open Preprint Systems (OPS). The company offers the OJS in the Cloud service, which hosts a variety of academic journals, both Brazilian and international, to facilitate global access to scholarly research.
About MPDL
The 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 Openjournals.nl
Openjournals.nl is the Dutch national platform for community-led publication of Diamond Open Access journals. Openjournals.nl hosts about 40 journals, published by university presses, learned societies, research institutes and independent networks, mainly in the humanities and social sciences. Openjournals.nl runs on OJS software, developed by the Public Knowledge Project. The platform and supporting team are based at the Humanities Cluster of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
About PKP
PKP is a Core Research Facility of Simon Fraser University (SFU) with the mission to further global access to scholarly research. We accomplish this through community-driven research, development, and support of open infrastructure to increase the quality, diversity, and accessibility of scholarly publishing. PKP is the trusted, original home of Open Journal Systems (OJS), with more than 44,000 journals using it worldwide.
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.