The Company of Biologists has announced a partnership with the OA Switchboard which makes it much easier for library customers to manage their Read & Publish agreements and to monitor the success of their Open Access (OA) strategy.
Lack of standardisation between systems, portals and processes has created challenges, particularly in terms of reporting and data analysis. The OA Switchboard offers a solution. A not-for-profit, independent and industry-wide initiative, the OA Switchboard provides a central multi-publisher hub for the exchange of OA-related publication-level information. It offers standardised and authoritative data for internal and external reporting and purchasing decisions. It also feeds data automatically into existing funder, institution and library systems for further integration, processing and analysis.
Connectors between The Company of Biologists and the OA Switchboard are now in place. This means that we can provide real-time publishing information on a regular basis to our library customers that are signed up to the OA Switchboard, and reporting is available from January 1, 2022.
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