The OA Switchboard is pleased to announce our next webinar which will focus on the shared use case: Matching Publication Costs with Publication Funds that our launch customers and founding partners are currently working on collaboratively.
Open Access output is growing year-on-year and the need to collaboratively develop open infrastructure to streamline communication between stakeholders has become a priority.
As a research institution or funder, it is complex to assess if and how a certain OA publication meets requirements and to track publications, spend and sponsorship. Especially, with multiple OA strategies in parallel:
- “Administering our central OA fund is harder than we imagined since every publisher has their own system and invoicing processes.”
- “There is no way we can possibly sign OA publishing deals with every single publisher.”
- “We also want to support non-APC based and non-corresponding author based initiatives, and multi-payer models.
As a publisher, it is hard to find out if an article publication satisfies an author’s OA requirements and to secure publication funds:
- “It takes a lot of manual work to determine if a funder or institution is willing to cover an APC.”
- “Not all publishers can maintain individual agreements with hundreds of institutions and funders.”
- “For non-APC-based initiatives, it would be helpful to find financial donors.”
Participants in the OA Switchboard share an ambition to simplify the fulfillment of OA publication-level arrangements (supporting all OA business models, policies, and types of research output) and to relieve the burden on the researcher.
The eco-system to work better for everyone: learn, adjust and progress.
Join us live for this highly practical evidence-based look at how the OA Switchboard is helping to match publication costs with publication funds for all these use cases via a series of short five-minute talks and use case presentations. There will be time for questions and discussions following.
Speakers:
- Adrian Stanley, JMIR Publications
- Alex Howat, Microbiology Society
- Charles Lusty, The Royal Society
- John Murtagh, Imperial College
- Kate Beeby, Francis Crick Institute
- Lucia Steele, AboutScience
- Katrin Seyler, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
- Mathew Willmott, California Digital Library
- Matthew Goddard, Iowa State University
- Pascal Braak, University of Amsterdam
- Rob O’Donnell, Rockefeller University Press
- Star Atay, Aries Systems
- Tom Jakobs, FNR Luxembourg National Research Fund
- Yvonne Campfens, OA Switchboard
Register directly with this link – please note this webinar is free and open to all thanks to the support of our host Aries Systems, and a recording of the webinar will be made available soon after the event.
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