October 20, 2025, Open Teleconference: Open Access Business Processes (OABP)

Join us for October 2025's Open Teleconference, where we will discuss the work of the Open Access Business Processes (OABP) Working Group. Cristin Hipke, NISO Standards Program Manager, will be in discussion with OABP Working Group members Meghana Hemphill (John Wiley & Sons), Chris Shillum (ORCID), and Maureen Walsh (Ohio State University) to discuss the need for the Recommended Practice and the draft of the Recommended Practice now open for public comment through October 17th.

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.