2022-10-13 - OA SIG meeting

Meeting time: 8:30 AM (US Eastern Time) / 1:30 PM (BST) / 2:30 PM (CEST)

Meeting URL: https://openlibraryfoundation.zoom.us/j/82643780981 (Password required)

OA Working Group Wiki: Open Access SIG Home

Google Drive Folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HR1JyDkUeRE0kL1eBKcu6uIvcNcnn352?usp=sharing

Slack channel: #open-access-management

Mailing list: folio-rm-oa@ole-lists.openlibraryfoundation.org (Subscribe here selecting 'folio-rm-oa' list)

Housekeeping and major community updates

• As we slowly approach the end of this development phase, it would help us for planning purposes if we knew a little more about your plans for using the Open Access app. Therefore, we would appreciate if you could participate in the following (optionally anonymous) survey:
  https://forms.gle/RLnC7aMfGL5JpPtQ7

Agenda items

• Demo of in-app report for OpenAPC report (Jack)
• Survey on institutional plans for productive use of the OA app

Minutes

• Martin and Peter S. are starting with a first draft for German translation; eveyone is welcome to contribute, please reach out to Björn Muschall if you want
• Question re: release date
  • The app will be released and usable this year but there are some hurdles regarding a new Folio evaluation process to integrate apps into the Folio Flower release. There are many modules in the current Flower release that would also fail the technical criteria if they were to be put through the process today! They are only included because they were already in the “flower release" bundle before the new criteria were introduced. Effectively the barrier for new modules is much higher than existing modules.
  • This won't prevent you from using the app productively, but it also depends on the hosting partner.
• Question on whether this has any effect how OA works with other apps
  • no negative effect
• Demo from Jack of in-app reporting functionality, i.e. for the moment "OpenAPC" report

Reports are based on the Payment period entered on the request record

as well as Charge categories (multiple selection possible) and Charge status; new action to run the report:

Report style is based on OpenAPC format:

• OS: What should the filename look like? At the moment it consists of institution_period_reportformat
  • including the date of reporting would be great
• Questions re: enhancement of this report or further reports
  • at the moment this in-app functionality is limited to OpenAPC report
  • it is technically possible to report on the database itself, but the vision is to create reports via LDP/metaDB
  • possibility for reports on database depends on hosting partner
  • Leipzig is able to create necessary OA reports on database and share them with the community
    • Feel free to add OA reports needs here: Collection of OA report needs
  • Björn Muschall and Stefan Dombek will initiate OA report topic in Reporting SIG
• OS: Report on Transformative agreements data set is worked on an needs some more discussion

From the chat

Attendees