Independent, not-for-profit, and community-led — OA Switchboard is a collaborative solution built to simplify the sharing of scholarly communications metadata among publishers, institutions, and funders. It is built by and for the people who use it, and is leveraged with existing PID’s, such as DOI, ORCID, and ROR.
The standardized protocol allows for the transparent exchange of data about (OA) publications, designed to operate and integrate with all stakeholder systems. It eases the administrative burden of maintaining many-to-many relationships and It reduces the manual volume of information exchange.
An upstream (publisher) and downstream (library) case study will illustrate this.
The Metadata Exchange Hub
Independent, not-for-profit, and community-led — OA Switchboard is a collaborative solution built to simplify the sharing of scholarly communications metadata among publishers, institutions, and funders. It is built by and for the people who use it, and is leveraged with existing PID’s, such as DOI, ORCID, and ROR.
Trust - Collaboration - Efficiency
The independently managed, shared infrastructure provides a safe space for publication metadata. The standardized protocol allows for the transparent exchange of data about (OA) publications, designed to operate and integrate with all stakeholder systems. It eases the administrative burden of maintaining many-to-many relationships and It reduces the manual volume of information exchange.
Case study 1: Publisher X
Case study 2: Library Y
Yvonne Campfens holds a MSc Econometrics degree from University of Amsterdam, and has worked in academic publishing and related service sectors for over 30 years (Elsevier, Swets Subscription Services, Bohn Stafleu van Loghum/Springer Media, Springer Nature). She was involved in collaborative and workflow solutions like ASA model licenses (1999), ALPSP Learned Journal Collection (2004) and TRANSFER Code of Practice (2009). In 2018, she started her own consultancy business, and has been involved with OA Switchboard since 2019. In 2020 she was appointed Executive Director of Stichting ('foundation') OA Switchboard.