Springer Nature negotiations aimed at securing a transitional OA agreement - April 27, 2022
UK institutions are in negotiation with Springer Nature to secure a transitional open access (OA) agreement for the Nature, Nature research journals, and Palgrave journals. A proposal that meets the requirements of the sector has not yet been provided. In accordance with UKRI… Read More
Jisc and the Royal Society of Chemistry announce new transitional OA agreement - April 22, 2022
Jisc and the Royal Society of Chemistry have extended and revised their transformative agreement until the end of 2024. Now utilizing all previous expenditures to support open access (OA) publications, the deal covers all expected publishing output in the Royal Society of Chemistry’s hybrid… Read More
IOP Publishing announces new unlimited open access agreement with Max Planck Society - March 23, 2022
IOP Publishing (IOPP) has established a new, unlimited, transformative open access (OA) agreement with the Max Planck Society, taking an important step forward in the transition of its journals to open access. The three-year agreement, which brings significant advances on their previous agreement, lifts all… Read More
Cambridge University Press announces transformative agreements with the NERL and OhioLINK library consortia - March 17, 2022
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press has entered into two major new open access publishing agreements in the United States. Transformative agreements with both the NERL and OhioLINK library consortia will support researchers at dozens more US universities and higher education… Read More
Springer Nature and Bibsam Consortium agree on TA for Nature and the Nature Research journals - March 14, 2022
Springer Nature has announced a second Transformative Agreement (TA) to include its flagship title Nature. The agreement with the Bibsam Consortium in Sweden enables researchers affiliated with 10 initial institutions to publish their research articles accepted for publication in Nature and the Nature Research… Read More
JISC and Bentham Science announce transformative ’Read and Publish’ agreement - March 11, 2022
JISC and Bentham Science Publishers (BSP) have reached a comprehensive ‘Read and Publish’ agreement. JISC comprises over 160 leading universities, libraries and research centers all over the United Kingdom as its members. The agreement will allow the authors from the institutions to publish their… Read More
The Microbiology Society and Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences sign transformative agreement - March 10, 2022
The Microbiology Society and Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMCAS) have announced their transformative agreement starting in 2022. The Publish and Read model will allow researchers at affiliated institutions to publish an unlimited number of Open Access (OA) articles in hybrid and… Read More
SAGE Publishing and SANLiC announce new transformative agreement to support researchers in South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia - March 9, 2022
SAGE Publishing and the South African National Library and Information Consortium (SANLiC) have announced a new transformative agreement to expand publishing opportunities for researchers in South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia. The three-year deal will provide researchers with Open Access (OA) publishing rights, with no… Read More
Springer Nature continues to drive OA transition across Europe - February 23, 2022
Springer Nature has announced its latest transformative agreement (TA), with Italy’s National Research Council (CNR), and also announces the renewal of TAs with the Austrian Academic Library Consortium in Austria and the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU). With the first TA in… Read More
IOP Publishing signs three-year read and publish agreement with Canadian Research Knowledge Network - February 21, 2022
IOP Publishing (IOPP) and the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) have signed an unlimited open access (OA) agreement. The three-year ‘read and publish’ deal offers authors affiliated with 45 CRKN member organizations unlimited OA publishing in IOPP’s hybrid and fully OA journals. The reading… Read More
