Open Access Business Processes (OABP) Working Group

Public Comment Period Open September 2–October 17, 2025

The NISO Open Access Business Processes (OABP) Working Group looks forward to receiving your comments! The public comment period is open from September 2 - October 17, 2025.

You may access the draft document, add a comment, and view comments received, which will be considered by the Working Group prior to final publication.

Working Group Overview

The increasing adoption of OA policies and mandates has shifted strategy and business practices in libraries, scholarly publishing entities, and associated organizations. Meanwhile, the operationalization of financial transactions, compliance tracking with different policies, and related workflows has yet to be normalized. In the absence of established best practices there exists a sundry assortment of individualized solutions in libraries and publishers that rely heavily on publishers' workflows, systems, dashboards, invoices, and data. A number of organizations have defined local workflows to facilitate work but a shared recommendation would be of benefit to the entire community. 

The Open Access Business Processes (OABP) Working Group will develop a Recommended Practice on operationalizing OA business practices. As part of this effort, the working group will conduct a landscape analysis on current OA business processes and take into consideration current gaps in the infrastructure and needed protocols for data exchange.