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OA Switchboard initiative: progress report March 2020 – OASPA

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“The OA Switchboard initiative is a collaboration between funders, institutions and publishers with the aim to facilitate the fulfilment of OA strategies across business models, policies and agreements, whilst providing a better experience for researchers/authors. The 2020 OA Switchboard project, as announced in our January progress report, explores how we can build an operational solution to tackle the shared problems together and investigates a sustainable governance and funding set-up for a shared initiative such as this….”

 

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“The OA Switchboard initiative is a collaboration between funders, institutions and publishers to facilitate the fulfilment of open access strategies across business models, policies and agreements. When operational, the OA Switchboard will be a central hub connecting systems and improving open access-related article-level information exchange between authors, publishers, funders and institutions.?

The OA Switchboard aims to reduce complexity for all stakeholders, so the ecosystem can work better for everyone, and can learn, adjust and progress….”

OA Switchboard initiative: progress report January 2020 – OASPA

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“The OA Switchboard aims to facilitate the fulfilment of open access strategies across business models, policies and agreements, and reduce complexity for all relevant stakeholders.

Open Access output is growing year-on-year. Increasingly, funders and institutions are paying for OA centrally. OA business models are becoming more and more diverse and complicated. Funders and institutions are tightening the requirements about how various research outputs should be published and reported. The increasingly complex network of agreements between publishers and institutions, along with the rise in the number of policies associated with open access publications set by academic institutions and funders, poses serious implementation challenges for all stakeholders concerned.

The OA Switchboard initiative is a collaboration between funders, institutions and publishers with the aim to facilitate the fulfilment of OA strategies across business models, policies and agreements, whilst providing a better experience for researchers/authors….”