The Association for Computing Machinery and the Chinese Academy of Sciences sign new transformative OA publishing agreement - September 15, 2021
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have signed the largest transformational open access (OA) publishing agreement in China to date. As a local third-party representing the specific requirements of ACM and CAS, The Charlesworth Group also helped… Read More
University of Iowa announces transformative ‘read and publish’ agreement with the Publications Division of the ACS - August 27, 2021
Researchers at the University of Iowa (UI) will soon be able to reach new audiences around the world, as a result of a transformative “read and publish” agreement with the Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS). Under a read and publish agreement, authors are… Read More
Karger Publishers to adopt Plan S-aligned ‘Transformative Journal’ model for journals - August 25, 2021
Karger Publishers is adopting the Plan S-aligned ‘Transformative Journal’ model for a growing number of journals, acting on its commitment to accelerate the transition to Open Access (OA). Seven Karger Publishers journals have committed to the Transformative Journals model so far. These include: Annals of Nutrition and… Read More
IEEE and FinELib announce transformative Open Access Read and Publish deal - August 25, 2021
Technical professional organization IEEE and FinELib, a consortium of Finnish universities, universities of applied sciences, research institutes, and public libraries, have entered an Open Access Read and Publish agreement. With this new agreement, researchers and other users at the participating institutions will be able… Read More
Rockefeller University Press announces free Read-and-Publish for developing nations - August 23, 2021
To address equity in Open Access publishing and promote important global research, publication fees for Immediate Open Access under CC-BY license in the Journal of Cell Biology (JCB), Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM), and the Journal of General Physiology (JGP) are automatically waived for corresponding authors based in eligible developing… Read More
SPIE announces read and publish agreement with Delft University of Technology - July 20, 2021
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced a new open access agreement with the Netherlands' Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), effective July 1, 2021. For TU Delft, a long-time subscriber to the SPIE Digital Library, this agreement adds open… Read More
Karger Publishers announces first transformative agreement in Latin America - July 8, 2021
Scientific and medical publisher Karger Publishers has closed another Open Access deal. The agreement with the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in Sao Paulo, Brazil, marks the publisher’s first in the Latin American region. The Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein and Karger Publishers have a long history of… Read More
IEEE and IReL announce new transformative open access agreement - June 29, 2021
Technical professional organization IEEE has reached an open access read and publish agreement with IReL, the Irish licensing consortium. The transformative read and publish agreement enables corresponding IReL authors to publish open access articles in IEEE’s industry-leading journals and provides reading access to over five million… Read More
New transformative agreement between IOP Publishing and MALMAD to benefit leading institutions in Israel - June 29, 2021
IOP Publishing (IOPP) has signed a new open access transformative agreement with Israeli academic consortium the Israeli Inter University Centre for Digital Information Services (MALMAD). As part of the three year ‘read and publish’ agreement, which runs until the end of 2023, researchers affiliated with the… Read More
ACS announces transformative ‘read and publish’ deal with the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities and the Spanish National Research Council - June 17, 2021
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced a landmark transformative “read and publish” agreement with the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (Crue) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Under the deal, researchers affiliated with institutions of Crue and the CSIC will… Read More