[Eril-l] NISO Approves Working Group to Develop Recommended Practice for Operationalizing Open Access Business Processes

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*Baltimore, MD—July 20, 2023*—Voting members of the National Information
Standards Organization (NISO) have approved the formation of a Working
Group to develop a Recommended Practice for operationalizing open access
(OA) business processes. NISO is seeking members from across the
information community to join the Working Group, which will address the
lack of infrastructure supporting OA content by helping stakeholders in
scholarly communications to track, assess, and report on OA publications,
authors, and funding more easily.


The volume of OA content has proliferated in recent years, but the systems
and workflows currently used by publishers and librarians were designed for
traditional, pay-to-read models. Business processes are currently
inadequate to address the requirements of—for example—transformative
agreements, which require complex financial management and the tracking of
authors and publishing outputs across large institutions. Libraries face
challenges in managing micropayments and assessing the financial impact of
such agreements, and authors often have difficulty determining whether
their manuscript is eligible for OA publication under agreement terms.
These complexities also impact publisher editorial and financial systems.
As a result, organizations often adopt manual processes for managing these
agreements, giving rise to inefficiencies across the ecosystem.


NISO’s Working Group will address the problem by identifying gaps in the
infrastructure for OA publications and agreements, developing terminology
to describe the surrounding processes, and outlining best practices for
exchanging data and analytics and metrics. The work will focus first on the
metadata required for exchange prior to publication as well as for
article-level financial transactions, and then address reporting following
publication. As the new Recommended Practice will be of interest to
publishers, libraries, authors, funders, and OA advocates and community
initiatives, the group is seeking volunteers representing a range of
stakeholder groups from across the scholarly communications industry.


Jack Maness, Associate Dean, University of Denver Libraries, who helped
develop the Working Group proposal, states, “The industry clearly needs
better infrastructure to support the volume of OA publications and
agreements. The new Working Group has an excellent opportunity to address
this problem with NISO Recommended Practices that will standardize business
processes around OA content and make workflows more efficient for multiple
stakeholders.”

“In the 1990s, the shift from print to digital transformed systems and
workflows in scholarly communications,” says Nettie Lagace, NISO Associate
Executive Director. “NISO is excited to help facilitate a new
transformation in business processes, one that will accommodate the growth
in OA publications and complex business models we’re seeing today.”

For more information or to volunteer to join the Operationalizing OA
Business Processes Working Group, please contact nisohq at niso.org.


About NISO


Based in Baltimore, MD, NISO’s mission is to build knowledge, foster
discussion, and advance authoritative standards development through
collaboration among the cultural, scholarly, scientific, and professional
communities. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages with libraries,
publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support
learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization,
management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting
communities of interest and across the entire life cycle of information
standards. NISO is a not-for-profit association accredited by the American
National Standards Institute (ANSI). For more information, visit the NISO
website (https://niso.org) or contact us at nisohq at niso.org.



NISO

3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 302

Baltimore, MD 21211

Phone: 301.654.2512

E-mail: nisohq at niso.org
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