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OA.Works

Cottage Labs has been working with OA.Works since 2013 back when it was called OA Button. The platform, at its heart, monitors the Self-Archiving policies of journals, and it now provides multiple tools to support Open Access, such as rapid self-archiving, and intra-library loans.

Challenge

Initially the challenge was to connect readers with authors when Open Access versions of their papers were not available. This quickly grew into a suite of tools to help authors self-archive, to help other infrastructure services to unerstand about self-archiving policies, and to provide next generation inter-library loans tools.

Solution

Following years of working closely with OA.Works, we're now hosting and maintaining some legacy systems while supporting a move to in-house development.

Success

OA.Works is now a major infrastructure component for Open Access, and has found itself major funders to continue its operations.