Jisc and the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (NAS) have announced a two-year transformational open access (OA) pilot agreement.
The ‘Publish and Read’ deal will allow UK corresponding authors at participating institutions to publish OA articles in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) without incurring any publication charges. Researchers at participating Jisc institutions will be able to access all PNAS content, dating back to 1915, for free.
The Jisc consortium, which consists of 156 UK universities, is the first national consortium to strike a transformational deal with the NAS.
The two-year pilot agreement, which runs from July 2021 until June 2023, enables immediate OA for UK higher education institutions and research organisations that opt in. Based on recent publishing data the deal will comfortably cover 100% UK output.
Jisc Collections has already successfully negotiated similar deals with 15 small society publishers including the Microbiology Society, The Royal Society, and Portland Press.
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