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IEEE and CRUI sign three-year transformative agreement in Italy -

Technical professional organization IEEE has reached an unlimited read and publish open access agreement with the Conferenza dei Rettori delle Università Italiane (CRUI), the association of state and non-state Italian universities, to support authors who choose to publish open access. Under this new… Read More

Transformational agreement between Springer Nature and Projekt DEAL extends 2019 partnership for fourth year -

In 2019 Springer Nature and Germany’s Projekt DEAL signed what was at the time the world's largest, most comprehensive, transformative agreement (TA). Encompassing 2,500 journals with the expectation of enabling 13,000 articles to be published open access (OA) each year, it reflected the commitment… Read More

Springer Nature announces fourth transformative agreement for its flagship Nature titles -

Springer Nature and the FinELIB consortium have agreed a three year open access (OA) deal for the publishers’ flagship title Nature and the Nature research journals. This marks the latest transformative agreement (TA) for the publisher’s highly selective titles following agreements with Bibsam, CDL… Read More

IOP Publishing announces three new Transformative Agreements in the US -

IOP Publishing (IOPP) has signed three new Transformative Agreements (TAs) that will accelerate open access (OA) publishing and extend access to high quality research in the United States (US). The three-year read and publish (R&P) agreements with Princeton University, the University of Central Florida and Connecticut College… Read More

IEEE and University of California announce transformative OA publishing agreement -

IEEE and the University of California have announced a four-year read-and-publish agreement to enable researchers across the 10-campus university system to publish open access in the technical professional organization’s approximately 200 leading journals and magazines. IEEE is among the largest publishers of UC research.… Read More

Tsinghua University and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) sign transformative new OA Agreement -

Tsinghua University and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) have agreed to a new open access (OA) publishing agreement under the ACM Open license framework. The Charlesworth Group provided essential local third-party representation to support the specific requirements of ACM and Tsinghua University. … Read More

Cambridge’s Transformative Journals see a 70 percent leap in research published open access -

Cambridge University Press revealed the figure in an update to the cOAlition S group of funders on the progress of its Transformative Journal (TJ) programme. The update also shows that the programme exceeded its open access (OA) growth target for the year, playing… Read More

Transformative agreement between SAGE Publishing and the University of California to expand the reach of UC Research -

Academic publisher SAGE Publishing and the University of California (UC) have announced an agreement to expand open access publishing opportunities for researchers at all 10 UC campuses. Running through 2024, the agreement will provide funding for UC researchers to make their SAGE research articles… Read More

Slovenian Consortium and Elsevier announce transformative agreement -

Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, has established its first transformative agreement with Slovenian ScienceDirect Consortium of universities, institutes and hospitals (Slovenian Consortium). The agreement will benefit the member institutions with access to Elsevier's extensive collection of journals on ScienceDirect, and enable their… Read More

Institutions partner with ACS to advance first California-wide transformative OA agreement -

Three California consortia, representing nearly 60 academic and research institutions, and the Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) have announced the first-ever California-wide transformative open access agreement. It is also ACS’ first “read and publish” agreement in the U.S. composed of multiple consortia. Through a… Read More


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