Penn State University Libraries expand open access publishing agreements with ACM and ACS - January 7, 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
CAUL and Taylor & Francis establish new open access agreement expanding publishing options for Australasian researchers - December 11, 2025
The Council of Australasian University Librarians (CAUL) and Taylor & Francis have established a three-year open access agreement that will expand OA publishing options for researchers in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand beginning in January 2026. The agreement ensures that research articles from participating… Read More
FinELib signs multi-year open access agreement with OA Switchboard to boost Finnish research - December 10, 2025
FinELib has entered a multi-year membership agreement with OA Switchboard, a central metadata hub, reinforcing a long-standing commitment to open access and cooperation as essential elements supporting Finnish research and learning. The collaboration enables participating institutions to benefit from centralized metadata exchange and automated… Read More
IGI Global Scientific Publishing renews open access agreement with Wake Forest University School of Medicine - December 10, 2025
IGI Global Scientific Publishing has renewed its open access agreement with Wake Forest University School of Medicine, extending a collaboration that supports faculty publishing in nearly 200 fully open access journals across Business & Management, Science, Technology, & Medicine (STM), and Education & Social… Read More
JMIR Publications and ZB MED extend flat-fee unlimited open access agreement through 2026 - December 5, 2025
JMIR Publications and ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences have extended and expanded their Flat-Fee Unlimited Open Access Publishing Agreement through 2026. The consortium arrangement will continue to support open access publishing for corresponding authors across eight German institutions and reflects the… Read More
King Abdulaziz University and Taylor & Francis sign open access publishing partnership - December 2, 2025
King Abdulaziz University and Taylor & Francis have formed a new open access publishing partnership to broaden the global reach of the university’s research programs. The partnership enables authors at King Abdulaziz University to publish open access articles in more than 2,500 journals within… Read More
Max Planck Society joins PeerJ AIMs program for APC-free publishing - November 28, 2025
The Max Planck Society has joined the PeerJ Annual Institutional Membership (AIMs) program, enabling authors from Max Planck institutes to publish in PeerJ journals without article processing charges. The membership allows corresponding or administrative authors affiliated with a Max Planck institute to submit and… Read More
