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Business Processes for Sustainable Open Access: Recommended Practices for Institutions, Research Funders, and Publishers

The volume of open access (OA) content has proliferated in recent years, but the systems and workflows 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. In this session, three community leaders, all recognized for their respective roles in developing and maintaining the scholarly infrastructure supporting OA content, will present outputs from NISO’s Open Access Business Processes Working Group. They will outline the group’s draft Recommended Practice, which offers guidelines for publishers, institutions, and authors on the workflows, metadata, metrics, and reporting for OA content, and share how their conversations with the community have shaped their plans. They will also invite session participants to provide feedback on their progress to date.

Publication Date

May 2025

47th Annual Meeting (2025)

Although every year in the scholarly publishing ecosystem is a balancing act of innovation, optimization, and value creation, 2025 is shaping up to be particularly challenging as the pace and scale of change is accelerating more than we’ve ever seen before. There is increasing pressure to provide value to and to meet the incredibly diverse needs of the global research community while maintaining financial health for our own organizations, living our values, and continuing to protect the scholarly record. With AI, open access, integrity, and mistrust frequently dominating the conversation, we are in the midst of an unprecedented shift in both our industry and society as a whole. As always, the SSP community continues to focus on bringing together academics, funders, librarians, publishers, service providers, technologists, researchers and countless others with a communal interest and stake in disseminating scholarly information. We look to the 47th Annual Meeting as an opportunity to continue this tradition and welcome all colleagues and community stakeholders.