The OA Switchboard Initiative has released a progress report https://ce-strategy.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c6f7c8e5ae0ddb11edac3c54&id=134f768996&e=878770aee0, and much progress has been made. The initiative has moved from a rough concept to an organization https://ce-strategy.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c6f7c8e5ae0ddb11edac3c54&id=c2935208c1&e=878770aee0 with a steering committee, working groups, project manager, and implementation plan. The OA Switchboard aims to provide infrastructure to support a variety of open access publishing models by “connecting systems and improving open access-related article-level information exchange between authors, publishers, funders and institutions.” This infrastructure is much needed in order to reduce the management costs associated with emerging publish and read models. -- Arun -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.