Taylor & Francis integrates with OA Switchboard
Taylor & Francis has announced a new partnership with OA Switchboard that will see the publisher share standardised metadata for all newly published journal articles.
The agreement is designed to make publication information more readily available to institutions and research funders, providing them with real-time notifications when affiliated researchers publish in Taylor & Francis, Routledge or Dove Medical Press journals.
OA Switchboard is a mission-driven, community-led initiative designed to simplify the exchange of information between stakeholders throughout the publication journey. Its infrastructure uses a standardised messaging protocol that can integrate with different stakeholder systems and draws on existing persistent identifiers (PIDs) to exchange publication information.
Under the partnership, Taylor & Francis will share metadata for new articles regardless of their open access (OA) status. The information will include article titles and publication dates, author names and affiliations, funding information and journal titles.
The integration with OA Switchboard will enable participating institutions and funding bodies to receive automated notifications of new publications by their researchers and grantees.
For research offices, libraries and funders, the data could provide a clearer overview of institutional publishing activity while reducing the administrative work involved in tracking research outputs. It can also help institutions identify opportunities to support researchers with OA funding and monitor compliance with open access policies.
“We are very pleased to welcome Taylor & Francis to the OA Switchboard network,” said Yvonne Campfens, Executive Director, OA Switchboard. “By sharing standardised publication metadata through the Switchboard, Taylor & Francis is helping advance a more connected and transparent ecosystem that benefits publishers, institutions, and funders.”
Ashok Subramanian, Chief Technology Officer at Taylor & Francis, said the collaboration demonstrated the potential benefits of greater information sharing across scholarly communications.
“OA Switchboard shows what is possible when different parts of the scholarly communications community work together to ensure all partners have the information they need. Metadata sharing is especially important for powering the growth of OA, equipping institutions, funders and their researchers to take advantage of OA opportunities and maximize the reach and impact of their research. We are already exploring with OA Switchboard options for further expanding our partnership.”
The Taylor & Francis partnership extends the Switchboard’s role as shared infrastructure connecting publishers, institutions and funders, with the two organisations already considering ways to expand the collaboration.