ORCID Executive Director, Chris Shillum, will be presenting at the Charleston Conference 2024.

Session Title: When the Sky’s the Limit in Open Access Models, How Do We Manage Our Workflows? The NISO Open Access Business Processes Working Group

As we are all experiencing, significant portions of the scholarly communications ecosystem are transitioning from pay-to-read to open access. The increasing adoption of Open Access policies and mandates has shifted business practices for nearly everyone involved in scholarly communications. Yet not all infrastructure, standards, and practices that have taken shape over past decades fit this new world. How do we make the best adjustments to our work, together?

The NISO Open Access Business Processes Working Group is developing a Recommended Practice to facilitate and catalyze a variety of established and emerging Open Access business models. This work is intended to enable the operationalization of financial transactions, compliance tracking, and related workflows to be optimized—not very ambitious at all!

This lively discussion session will provide an opportunity for conversation around current Open Access business models and their pain points for stakeholders and will include an update on the NISO Working Group’s progress. We look forward to a discussion with attendees about current gaps in Open Access workflows across different systems and emerging best practices in identifying relevant and necessary metadata points in Open Access business models.

• Maureen Walsh, The Ohio State University Libraries, Scholarly Sharing Strategist
• Amanda Holmes, Canadian Research Knowledge Network, Senior Licensing Officer
• Sherri Young, IEEE, Product Manager, Science & Technology Publishing and Media
• Chris Shillum, ORCID, Executive Director