NERL is pleased to announce that it has signed a 3-year agreement with OA Switchboard, an intermediary that facilitates the transmission of standardized OA publication data between institutions, publishers, and funders. By joining in this collaborative effort consisting of over 21 consortia, 40 publishers, and 275 individual institutions, NERL members will be supporting global OA infrastructure with metadata that is authoritative, transparent, and timely. This partnership also equips NERL libraries with more data for reporting, compliance, and assessment, reducing administrative burden and improving insight into open access publishing activity.
“Open access is essential to the global equity of research and NERL is delighted to be partnering with OA Switchboard to streamline OA metadata and reporting across the community,” said Lanette Garza, Director for Collections Acquisitions & Licensing at the Center for Research Libraries. “NERL is happy to be providing this tangible benefit to our members to streamline and help inform their transition to open access.”
Yvonne Campfens, Executive Director of Stichting OA Switchboard stated, “We’re thrilled to welcome NERL to the OA Switchboard community. Their participation strengthens our shared mission to enable efficient, transparent, and reliable exchange of open access publication data across the global research ecosystem.”
About NERL
NERL consists of a core group of 30 of the most research-intensive institutions in North America. It is a national leader in negotiated licensing whose mission is to serve as an advocate for the collective power and influence of libraries and their parent institutions. NERL is based at the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) in Chicago.
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 standardized 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.