FOLIO Forum — Introducing the Open Access app
Channel: Open Library Foundation
Date: 2022-11-30

This FOLIO Forum will introduce the new Open Access application.

The Open Access app introduces a new set of functionality to the FOLIO platform, helping libraries record, manage and report on requests from faculty to publish open access materials. The open access application is fully integrated with the existing FOLIO Invoice application to record payments and includes “checklist” functionality to help manage requests through any locally defined workflows and processes.

The open access application includes options to:
* record a request for an open access publication with all relevant details
* record charges related to open access publications and link these to invoices
* link open access publications to the relevant publishers transformative agreements where applicable
* generate reports compatible with OpenAPC (an initiative to collect and disseminate datasets on fees paid for open access publishing under an open database license)

Presenters
* Owen Stephens, Open access Product owner 
* Björn Muschall, Leipzig University Library, OA SIG convener, Local FOLIO Project Lead