Conveners
New services and subsequent use: Electronic Journals Library (EZB) and Unpaywall
- Silke Weisheit (University Library of Regensburg)
- Jason Priem (OurResearch)
New services and subsequent use: Forschungszentrum Jülich and OA Switchboard
- Campfens Yvonne (OA Switchboard)
- Irene Barbers (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
The Electronic Journals Library (EZB) provides information on more than 110,000 electronic journals from all subject areas, including 74,000 freely available titles. Over 650 libraries and research institutions jointly maintain the EZB data, which is of high quality and up to date.
EZB data are used for various user services and numerous services for the supply of literature and research...
OpenAlex is an open index of millions of interconnected entities across the global research system. Unsub leverages data from OpenAlex to help libraries reevaluate their serials collections options. For costs, Unsub forecasts currently incorporate a-la-carte title subscription prices. We would like to incorporate APCs into Unsub to be able to account for institutional spend on APCs; and we...
The Open Access Monitor Germany (OAM) records the publication output of German academic institutions in scientific journals and offers a freely available tool for analysis of the aggregated datasets to libraries, funders, and researchers. Through analyses of subscription fees and publication fees, the OAM helps to monitor and support the transition of the publishing system towards open access....
The OA Switchboard is a mission-driven, community led initiative designed to simplify the sharing of information between stakeholders about open access publications throughout the whole publication journey. It provides a standardised messaging protocol and shared infrastructure that is designed to operate and integrate with all stakeholder systems. Currently 19 publishers are live and...
