Academic publisher Cambridge University Press has signed a transformative Open Access agreement with the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The three-year agreement advances on the traditional journals subscription model, combining reading access and open access publishing under one, centrally-administered agreement.
KAUST will have access to a comprehensive package of science and technology journals published by the Press. At the same time, its researchers and faculty will be able to publish their articles under an Open Access license in hybrid and fully Open Access journals included in the package.
The deal follows a number of similar agreements between the Press and higher education and research institutions around the world.
In April the Press reached an agreement with the University of California, its first such deal in the Americas. Other recent read and publish agreements include the Max Planck Society and the Bavarian State Library in Germany; Jisc in the UK; the Bibsam consortium of Swedish higher education and research institutions, and the UKB consortium of Dutch university libraries.
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