Springer Nature and UC Berkeley Library in deal to publish OA books across all subject areas - March 25, 2021
Springer Nature has signed its first ever institutional open access (OA) book agreement with the University of California, Berkeley Library. The agreement will cover a broad range of book titles across all disciplines — from humanities and social sciences to sciences, technology, medicine and mathematics. Starting in… Read More
Elsevier and The Austrian Academic Library Consortium announce three-year pilot for reading and OA publishing - March 23, 2021
Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, and the Kooperation E-Medien Österreich (KEMÖ) / The Austrian Academic Library Consortium, including the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), have agreed on a three-year pilot to support continued reading and open access (OA) publishing for Austrian researchers. This… Read More
Emerald Publishing and Sweden’s Bibsam Consortium sign three-year transformative agreement - March 19, 2021
Emerald Publishing has signed its first transformative open access agreement with the Bibsam Consortium. This progressive deal will run from 2021 until 2023, and it will enhance the publishing journey for researchers from 29 of its academic member’s institutions through access to more than 200,000 articles… Read More
University of California and Elsevier sign four-year transformative agreement - March 18, 2021
Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, and the University of California (UC) have signed a memorandum of understanding to support open access (OA) publishing across the 10-campus UC system. With this agreement, Elsevier aims to find the right solutions to meet the diverse… Read More
The Company of Biologists and University of California announce new transformative OA agreement - March 15, 2021
The Company of Biologists has announced a three-year Open Access agreement with the University of California (UC). This new cost-neutral transformative agreement – which runs from January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2023 – covers Open Access publishing in The Company of Biologists’ three hybrid journals (Development,… Read More
SAGE and The Canadian Research Knowledge Network announce new transformative agreement enabling unlimited OA publishing rights for affiliated researchers - February 25, 2021
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing and The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) have announced a new ‘read and publish’ agreement that will benefit researchers affiliated with CRKN’s member institutions. The agreement provides Canadian researchers at participating institutions with unlimited open access publishing rights in… Read More
The Royal Society of Chemistry announces Read & Publish agreement with CSIRO - February 19, 2021
The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced a new Read & Publish deal with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), the first such agreement with a partner in Australia. The agreement will initially run as a one-year pilot, with the opportunity… Read More
Oxford University Press and Jisc announce transformative ‘Read and Publish’ agreement - February 18, 2021
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) and education and research not-for-profit, Jisc, have reached a comprehensive ‘Read and Publish’ agreement. The new agreement will provide UK universities with access to OUP’s journal collection and will allow authors at participating institutions to publish 100%… Read More
Springer Nature signs its first transformative agreement with CRUI-CARE - February 12, 2021
Springer Nature has signed its first transformative agreement (TA) with Conferenza dei Rettori delle Universita Italiane (CRUI-CARE), the association of Italian state and non-state universities which acts on behalf of over 90 Italian academic and research institutions. The agreement is the… Read More
Spanish National Research Council and Portland Press sign Read & Publish deal - February 11, 2021
The Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), also known as the Spanish National Research Council, signs up to the Biochemical Society and Portland Press’ pilot Read & Publish transformative deal. Corresponding authors at CSIC institutions will receive unlimited open access (OA)… Read More