5 November 2024
Publishers using PKP’s Open Journal Systems (OJS) to manage the researcher-to-reader workflow for submission, peer review, and production of scholarly articles, can now easily connect to OA Switchboard with a new OJS plug-in. With the plug-in installed, articles published will seamlessly and immediately be reported to relevant institutions and research funders. The relevant metadata will automatically be extracted on article level and pushed to the stakeholders in the standardised OA Switchboard message structure format.
This plug-in increases the visibility of publications to relevant stakeholders, makes reporting on OA output easier, improves discoverability, and eases integrations with downstream systems. As a bonus, the publishers will benefit from enhanced management information and better opportunities for portfolio management, as well as greater insights into their stakeholders and authors.
The plug-in, developed open source by Lepidus Tecnologia, and with Openjournals.nl as testing partner, will soon be available from the PKP Plugin Gallery. The development has been made possible by funding from the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL).
Ádám Dér, Head of Scientific Information Services at the MPDL, says: “The MPDL is proud to contribute to the development of open infrastructure that facilitates the streamlining of processes in the ever-complex world of open academic publishing. In line with the Max Planck Society’s vision of barrier-free access to scientific knowledge, we remain dedicated to creating the conditions for open scholarly processes for our researchers and the global scientific community. We’re honored to support the creation of a plug-in that enables standardised OA reporting for OJS publishers via the OA Switchboard, which also elevates their position and visibility among libraries, consortia, and funders.”
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