Research published out of Montana State University (MSU) will reach wider audiences and be more accessible owing to a new partnership between the university and Taylor & Francis, which publishes scholarly journals, books, ebooks and reference works.
The new ’read and publish’ agreement is the first of its kind for Taylor & Francis in the western United States and is among the first of its kind for MSU. In 2020, the MSU Library and Cambridge University Press made a similar agreement, MSU’s first. MSU now has five such read and publish agreements.
Taylor & Francis publishes content that is open only to subscribers, as well as content that is open access. Under the terms of the three-year agreement, MSU faculty, staff and students will have unrestricted access to all content published by Taylor & Francis during the contract period beginning this year through 2024. Bozeman community members and others not directly affiliated with MSU can also access Taylor & Francis journals that require a subscription by using a computer on the MSU campus. In addition, affiliated MSU authors are now able to publish their articles openly at no cost in Taylor & Francis journals that support open access. Typically, an author is charged up to $4,800 to publish their article openly in a Taylor & Francis journal, according to Hannah McKelvey, MSU electronic resources and discovery services librarian. She said that cost is now waived under the agreement.
The new agreement will cost roughly the same amount the MSU Library was already paying for a traditional subscription to Taylor & Francis journals.
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