NISO Plus 2024 Global/Online

The Ohio State University Libraries (University Libraries) is a large North American research library that has supported open access for more than two decades. For the past five years, University Libraries has prioritized redirecting library collection funds from paywalled subscription models to open access models that seek to transform the scholarly publishing marketplace. We currently have 13 Read and Publish or Pure Publish agreements with five commercial publishers and eight non-profit publishers. We entered into these agreements as pilots and experiments, and each has its own publisher workflow across five different dashboards and three offline data reports. This session will discuss the approaches University Libraries is taking to operationalize our support of open access to strategically steward our resources as we look to a future where open access is the norm for library functions, not the boutique. If accepted, I plan to invite speakers from a range of library types/geographic locations and one publisher or data provider to discuss their pain points with supporting open access, their innovative approaches, and how we can collectively move toward sustainable open access workflows with standardized data, reporting, and impact metrics.