Academic publisher Cambridge University Press and the Jisc Collections have reached a progressive agreement, which will enable UK universities and colleges to make a sustainable transition to publishing more Open Access content in the publisher's journals.
JISC Collections provides UK academic institutions with shared infrastructure and services and the three-year deal is designed to encourage those institutions to publish more Open Access content in Press journals.
It covers both the payment for institutions to access the Press's journals and the Article Processing Charges their authors would normally pay to publish their work Open Access in those journals. With UK institutions at different stages in the transition to Open Access, the deal has been drawn up to allow each institution to move at a pace which suits them.
The agreement terms include options for institutions to begin the transition, with increases in Open Access publishing linked to a decrease in subscription spending. This should enable a steady transition towards a complete read-and-publish transformation which is affordable for institutions and recognises the complexity of the varied funding models and drivers for publication for authors in different areas of STM and HSS.
The agreement is the latest in a series of initiatives from the Press as it moves to underscore its commitment to Open Research and follows other read and publish deals with the Bibsam consortium of Swedish higher education and research institutions in November and with the UKB consortium of Dutch university libraries in 2017.
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