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
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
