2 June 2022
Elsevier is establishing a pilot with Oable, the open access (OA) workflow management solution developed by Knowledge Unlatched, to simplify the librarian approval workflow for open access publishing.
Oable supports libraries in managing their OA activities across publishers, including different types of commercial agreements and products. The new partnership will be piloted with select institutions with the aim of streamlining transactions and reducing the administrative burden on librarians and university officials. This means librarians for the institutions participating in the pilot will be able to manage their OA agreements and arrangements for all Elsevier journals through the Oable platform.
Gwen Evans, Vice-President of Global Library Relations at Elsevier, said: “Elsevier is pleased to partner with Oable in this pilot to support librarians and help simplify their important processes by adding our OA agreements to the platform. As one of the fastest-growing open access publishers in the world, we want to help make it easy for librarians to administer OA activities alongside the critical support they provide to researchers and faculty.”
“As the volume of articles published in peer-reviewed journals continues to skyrocket, Oable customers are seeking a solution that not only eases the growing burden of administrative work, but also covers their agreements across publishers,” says Dr. Sven Fund, Senior Director at Wiley-VCH GmbH. “We anticipate that the inclusion of Elsevier’s open access journal agreements in Oable will be highly welcomed by the library community.”