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The OpenAPC initiative releases data sets on fees paid for open access (OA) journal articles by universities, funders and research institutions under an open database licence. OpenAPC is part of the INTACT project, which is funded by the German Research Foundation and located at Bielefeld University Library. This article provides insight into OpenAPC's technical and organizational background and shows how transparent and reproducible reporting on fee-based open access can be conducted across institutions and publishers to draw conclusions on the state of the OA transformation process. As part of the INTACT subproject, ESAC, the article also shows how OpenAPC workflows can be used to analyse offsetting deals, using the example of Springer Compact agreements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose — The purpose of this paper is to describe the activities of Bielefeld University Library in establishing OAT based repository servers and in using OAT resources for end-user-oriented search services like Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE). Design/methodology/approach — Discusses OAT based repository servers. Findings — BASE is able to integrate external functions of Google Scholar. The search engine technology can replace or amend the search functions of a given repository software. BASE can also be embedded in external repository environments. Originality/value — The paper provides an overview of the functionalities of BASE and gives insight into the challenges that have to be faced when harvesting and integrating resources from multiple OAT servers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]