Librarian’s Guide to Open Access Administration

Three strategies to streamline your library’s open access workflow

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Over the past few years, the transition to open access research has gained significant momentum among academic libraries, consortia, and publishers. Open access evolved from an idea into a mandated strategy for many countries, universities, and research entities, accelerated further by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Transformational agreements (TAs) are at the heart of all this change Each agreement approaches open access from a different angle, but they are all designed with the same goals in mind: to shift from subscriptions to open access publishing, and to enable researchers to have maximum impact with their work.

Despite clear benefits, the transition to open access is complex and comes with challenges. One of the fundamental obstacles facing librarians today is a profound lack of streamlined systems. In other words: everyone is talking about open access, but not everyone has the resources or workflows to manage open access efficiently.

Read more to learn about the common challenges plagued by librarians in the management of individual transformational agreements, as well as the way to overcome these challenges.

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