Tsinghua University and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) sign transformative new OA Agreement - July 6, 2022
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 - June 30, 2022
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 - June 8, 2022
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 - May 23, 2022
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 - May 18, 2022
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
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
