OAQ is a web-based tool that helps publishers create author questionnaires and creates structured data from author responses. You can read more about the project on the Harvard Library portal.
SECTIONSOAQ is designed to be a multi-tenant platform, which means multiple publishers can use it simultaneously with their own users and branding. This means your organization’s data will remain invisible to other publishers.
Note that when we say “publisher” in this documentation, we mean an organization with an organization type of publisher. The other organization type available is library.
The OAQ application supports several types of account roles, each with different views and permissions. Here they are in order from most to least access:
| Account role | Permissions |
|---|---|
| Site admin | Can see and manage all organizations, including creating organizations and inviting users to an organization. Currently limited to Harvard library staff. |
| Organization admin | Can invite staff to the organization, manage organization users, edit organization details, create new questionnaires, manage questionnaires, send questionnaires to authors, and manage author responses. |
| Organization staff | Can create new questionnaires, manage questionnaires, send questionnaires to authors, and manage author responses. |
| Author | Can view, save, and submit questionnaires. |
Before anyone from your organization can do anything in OAQ, a site admin will need to create your organization with some preliminary information that your staff can edit later.
Your experience as a publisher in OAQ begins when the site admin invites the first member (or members) to the organization to be an organization admin.
Each invited organization admin will receive an email that contains an invitation link. If you receive one of these emails and click the link, you will be taken to a page in OAQ where you can confirm your account and create a password. Note that you can always change your password later.
OAQ facilitates the sharing of questionnaire data between publishers and libraries. As a publisher, you can share author responses with any library of your choosing. Only OAQ site admins can set up publisher–library partnerships, so talk to the site admin who creates your organization about the libraries you wish to work with.
If you are an organization admin, once you have confirmed your account, you will have the ability to invite additional members to the organization and set their roles as either admin or staff. You can also delete and restore users as needed.
To log out of OAQ, simply click the user icon in the top bar and click Logout.
To log in again, click Sign In in the top bar.
You can change your password at any time by clicking the user icon in the top bar and selecting Change Password.