The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) libraries have announced a new partnership with OA Switchboard to aid in the transition to open access and promote the growth of open scholarship. This partnership will allow BTAA members to benefit from OA Switchboard's standardized metadata protocol and shared infrastructure, supporting the increasingly complex open access research and publishing ecosystem. This agreement began on January 1, 2023, and will run through December 31, 2025.
Through this arrangement, BTAA members can receive 'publication notifications' from over 24 participating publishers in a consistent data format to enhance their workflows and enable the fulfillment of OA publication-level arrangements. This will make OA publishing highly visible and ease technical integration.
This partnership marks an important step in supporting open access and will benefit the academic community by making research more accessible and visible.
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