JMIR Publications and National Library of Sweden renew flat-fee open access agreement through 2026 - January 8, 2026
JMIR Publications and the National Library of Sweden have announced the renewal and expansion of a flat-fee unlimited open access publishing agreement covering members of the Bibsam Consortium through December 31, 2026. Originally scheduled to expire at the end of 2025,… Read More
ResearchGate partners with Unisa Press to expand access to South African open access journals - January 8, 2026
ResearchGate and Unisa Press have announced a new Journal Home partnership that will make all 10 of Unisa Press’ open access journals available on the ResearchGate platform, expanding global access to scholarly publications produced by the University of South Africa. The collaboration marks ResearchGate’s first partnership with… Read More
Cambridge University Press partnership enables no-cost open access publishing for SUNY New Paltz Faculty - January 7, 2026
The Sojourner Truth Library has established a partnership with Cambridge University Press that allows SUNY New Paltz faculty and staff to publish open-access scholarly articles with publication fees fully covered. Under the agreement, authors are not required to pay standard open-access charges. The agreement… Read More
The Company of Biologists renews Read & Publish open access agreement with MALMAD through 2028 - January 7, 2026
The Company of Biologists has renewed its five-journal Read & Publish open access agreement with MALMAD, Israel’s Inter-University Center for Digital Information Services, extending the partnership for a further three years from January 1, 2026, through December 31, 2028. Under the renewed agreement, researchers affiliated with eight… Read More
IGI Global Scientific Publishing and Clemson University formalize open access publishing agreement - January 7, 2026
IGI Global Scientific Publishing has established a new open access agreement with Clemson University, enabling institutional support for faculty publishing across the publisher’s open access journal portfolio. Through the agreement, Clemson University faculty members receive Article Processing Charge (APC) funding support from the university… Read More
AIP Publishing signs first AIP Fusion open access agreement with National Autonomous University of Mexico - January 6, 2026
AIP Publishing has announced that the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) has signed an agreement to participate in AIP Fusion, AIP Publishing’s services-based reading and publishing model. The National Autonomous University of Mexico is the first institutional consortia globally to join AIP Fusion.… Read More
Penn State University Libraries expand open access publishing agreements with ACM and ACS - January 6, 2026
Penn State University Libraries has announced it will enter into new open-access publishing agreements with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the American Chemical Society (ACS) beginning in 2026. The agreements are intended to ensure that Penn State peer-reviewed research… Read More
University of Erfurt joins DEAL agreement with Elsevier to expand open access publishing options - December 22, 2025
The University of Erfurt has announced that it will join the DEAL agreement with Elsevier effective January 1, 2026, expanding its open access publishing options. Of the open access transformation agreements concluded with the three major academic publishers Elsevier, Springer Nature, and Wiley under… Read More
Austrian KEMÖ consortium extends open access publishing agreement with MDPI - December 17, 2025
The Austrian library consortium Kooperation E-Medien Österreich (KEMÖ) has renewed an open access publishing agreement with MDPI, extending the partnership through the end of 2027. The Medical University of Vienna and the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, have joined the agreement… Read More
MIT Press and Open Mind partner with Lyrasis to support diamond open access publishing via OACIP - December 12, 2025
The MIT Press and Open Mind have announced a partnership with Lyrasis through the Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP), a model designed to bring together libraries, scholarly communities, and nonprofit publishers to support diamond open access journals. Through OACIP, Lyrasis… Read More
