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OASPA has announced the founding of a new neutral, independent intermediary for the OA Switchboard to enable shared infrastructure and bring transparency, efficiency and cost effectiveness to the open access ecosystem. 

Please read more about the founding of the independent Stichting OA Switchboard on the OASPA blog here.

OASPA remains fully supportive and actively involved through a strategic partnership with the Stichting OA Switchboard.

The Steering Committee has been crucial in providing guidance throughout the project phase and we are delighted that some of the committee members are also willing to serve as the first directors for the Stichting OA Switchboard:

• Ivy Anderson (California Digital Library)
• Rachel Bruce (UKRI)
• Liam Earney (Jisc)
• Hannah Hope (Wellcome Trust)
• Paul Peters (Hindawi)
• Claire Redhead (OASPA)
• Ralf Schimmer (Max Planck Digital Library)

The Board delegates the day-to-day management of the OA Switchboard to an Executive Director. The project manager of the 2020 project, Yvonne Campfens, is appointed to this role.

Webinars are being organised to present the OA Switchboard to the wider community, supported by demonstrations/presentations of real-life use cases by launching customers.

More details, including 2021 pricing, is available from the website www.oaswitchboard.org or from Executive director for the OA Switchboard Yvonne Campfens