Today, we’re sharing our draft plan for succession and contingency planning: openaccessbutton.org/contingency-and-succession-plan. But, fear not, we’re not going anywhere soon. Recently, we responded to the Invest in Open census, an excellent initiative, which included answering the better part of 100 questions on everything from our impact, governance, and funding to the management of our organization, product, and community.
Introducing shareyourpaper.org , the simplest way for authors to legally self-archive and for your library to fill your repository. Self-archiving needs to be simpler to unleash its power as an equitable route to open access. Yet, it’s too hard for individual repositories to overhaul their existing user experience.
Together with librarians, we’re building a new way to perform permissions checking that is backed by a modern approach and informed by a decade of experience and open, community-editable, machine-readable data.
This year, we released DeliverOA to make it easier to find self-archived Open Access versions of articles and deliver them inside ILL workflows in major tools. Today, we’re releasing an update to make it easier to deliver Open Access content for practitioners using Alma, by Ex Libris. Alma is a major tool for document-delivery practitioners around the globe.
Delivering Open Access content through interlibrary loan holds enormous potential for cost savings (as this recent study continues to show), as well as the discovery and creation of Open Access content when it’s needed most. However, it comes with new knowledge for practitioners to learn, and challenges to tackle.
Today, we’re announcing upgrades to our title and citation searching systems for Interlibrary Loan to deliver dramatically better results in Open Access. Testing of items searched using our ILL tools showed our new systems can deliver 30% more results when using titles previously used in DeliverOA. We’ve made these changes in response to the incredible level of adoption of DeliverOA and feedback from our users.
To make it easier for authors to self-archive simply, quickly, and correctly, we’ve created Direct2AAM, a set of guides to turn the often unsuccessful hunt for author accepted manuscripts (AAM) into a simple set of instructions that’ll always bring results.
To advance this work, we would like to collaborate with Interlibrary Loan teams who want their work to open up content, repository teams interested in improving their deposit workflows to increase deposits, and libraries currently reconsidering a big deal package (especially if using Ex-Libris Primo, Alma, or Illiad) who would be interested in learning more about how these tools can give you more leverage in negotiations.
If you’d like to write about these new tools or collaborate on building them get in touch with Joe@openaccessbutton.org. Libraries have led the charge to open up access to the scholarly literature. We want to help turn that leadership into leverage to reduce costs, to save staff time, to improve library services, and to open up more even content and infrastructure.
Over the past few months we’ve been testing how to deliver Open Access materials in interlibrary loan services at three universities in the United Kingdom in collaboration with Jisc. Learn more about the project and use cases from the following Jisc blog posts: A leaner, faster interlibrary loan service?