Emerald Publishing and the IReL consortium sign three-year transformative deal - May 10, 2021
Academic publisher Emerald Publishing has signed its first transformative deal with the IReL consortium. This progressive deal will run from 2021 to 2023, and it will seek to enhance the publishing journey for researchers from all of IReL’s participating higher education institutions in Ireland, giving them… Read More
Springer Nature announces new Transformative Agreement with Spain, leads the drive for OA across Europe - May 6, 2021
Springer Nature has been leading the way in enabling country-level flips to open access since 2014, when it pioneered its first transformative agreement (TA). Its latest national TA with Spain takes Springer Nature’s number of national TA’s to 14, 13 of which are in… Read More
Taylor & Francis Group announces transformative agreements consortia across Europe - April 30, 2021
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group has reached several transformative agreements with consortia across Europe, as it continues to expand its commitment to open access. Academics in The Netherlands, Spain, Hungary, and Austria will benefit from ‘read and publish’ partnerships signed in recent months. A renewed… Read More
ACS and Syracuse University announce transformative ‘read and publish’ agreement - April 26, 2021
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and Syracuse University (SU) are embarking on a transformative “read and publish” agreement, expanding the visibility of the university’s researchers’ scientific contributions. This commitment is a deepening of ACS’ commitment to open access publishing, a movement that it… Read More
Taylor & Francis Group and Jisc sign 3-year transformational deal for UK research - April 13, 2021
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group and Jisc have signed a three-year transitional agreement combining access and open access (OA) publishing to Taylor & Francis Group’s portfolio of journals. The agreement is truly transformative and provides participating Jisc members with an OA allowance… Read More
Karger Publishers and Iceland Consortium sign transformative Open Access agreement - April 9, 2021
Scientific and medical publisher Karger is the first scientific publisher to sign a transformative Open Access (OA) agreement in Iceland. The contract provides access to all Karger e-journals (including backfiles) and enables OA publishing with no additional cost to authors. As it is a truly national license,… Read More
Cambridge University Press announces massive expansion of Open Access agreements in the US - April 7, 2021
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press is leading the move to new Open Access (OA) journals publishing agreements in the United States through an unprecedented expansion of transformative ‘Read and Publish’ deals. The number of US institutions participating in such agreements will leap from 13 in 2020 to… Read More
Springer Nature announces first Transformative Agreement in Ireland, increases number of its national Transformative Agreements to 13 - April 5, 2021
Springer Nature and IReL, a nationally funded e-resource licensing consortium of publicly funded Irish higher educational institutions, have announced a four year transformative agreement (TA). This new deal, the 13th for Springer Nature, gives publications from researchers across Ireland increased global reach. Research… Read More
Taylor & Francis Group and IReL announce new transformative agreement - April 1, 2021
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group has signed a new transformative agreement with IReL, an e-resource licensing consortium for Irish publicly funded higher education institutions, for three years starting in March 2021. The agreement allows Irish researchers access to Taylor & Francis Group journals as well… Read More
Crue Spanish Universities-CSIC Alliance and Elsevier announce four-year pilot for reading and OA publishing - March 29, 2021
Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (Crue Universidades Españolas) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) have agreed on a new four-year pilot to support continued reading and open access (OA) publishing for universities and CSIC’s… Read More
