Academic publisher Cambridge University Press has reached a transformative Open Access agreement with the Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources (JUSTICE). It is the first such read and publish deal signed with JUSTICE by any publisher, the first major read and publish deal in Japan and a first for the Press in Asia.
Read and publish deals pay for an institution to access a publisher's journals and also covers any Article Processing Charges the institution's authors would normally pay to publish their work Open Access with that publisher.
JUSTICE is Japan's largest organisation of library consortia, with more than 500 affiliated university and research libraries. Those institutions can now choose to opt-in to the three-year agreement, which would allow their authors to publish their research articles in Press journals that publish open content. In addition, each institution will have access to the journal collections they currently subscribe to.
The ground-breaking agreement follows a number of similar agreements between the Press and higher education and research institutions worldwide.
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