Cambridge University Press and Jisc reach UK-wide flexible open access read and publish agreement - December 16, 2020
Cambridge University Press (CUP) and Jisc, the education and research not-for-profit, have reached a UK-wide open access (OA) agreement that offers a range of flexible Read and Publish options to all UK institutions. Institutions who did not previously take the complete collection, will receive… Read More
New project to review progress on transformative Open Access agreements - December 1, 2020
cOAlition S seeks to work with learned societies, libraries, library consortia, publishers, and other stakeholders to accelerate the transition to Open Access. Following on the outcomes of the Society Publishers Accelerating Open access and Plan S (SPA-OPS) project, the European Science Foundation,… Read More
IOP Publishing signs transformative agreement with the Polish Academic Consortium - November 19, 2020
IOP Publishing (IOPP) has signed a new open access (OA) transformative agreement with the Polish Academic Consortium. Under the three year ‘read and publish’ agreement, authors affiliated with the consortium’s member institutions can publish open access in 42 IOPP journals without article publication charges for… Read More
American Chemical Society and Khalifa University sign read and publish agreement - November 2, 2020
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS), has signed a transformative ‘read and publish’ agreement with Khalifa University of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi in its first such partnership with a university in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The agreement with Khalifa University… Read More
German institutions to benefit from first transformative agreement for Nature and Nature-branded journals - October 20, 2020
Springer Nature and the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) have agreed an approach that will deliver the first ever transformative agreement (TA) for Nature and Nature-branded journals. Building on the nationwide Projekt DEAL agreement concluded in January 2020 for Springer Nature journals,… Read More
CNR and AIP Publishing enter into Read and Publish agreement - October 15, 2020
AIP Publishing, a leading not-for-profit scholarly publisher in the physical sciences, has announced a Read and Publish agreement with the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) [National Research Council], Italy’s largest public research institution. All researchers at CNR-affiliated institutes throughout Italy will have… Read More
SPIE and the Eindhoven University of Technology announces three-year “read and publish” agreement - September 24, 2020
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced a three-year ‘Read and Publish’ agreement with the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands. The new agreement is effective September 1, 2020. It incorporates read access to all SPIE journals and proceedings in… Read More
Karger Publishers expands OA program with seven more OA journals, transformative OA agreements and additional ‘Open’ actions - September 16, 2020
Scientific and medical publisher Karger Publishers has again substantially increased the proportion of the Open Access content it publishes, continuing to drive forward the OA transition and demonstrating its proactive “open for Open” strategy. The Switzerland-based company has flipped six subscription journals to the Gold… Read More
AIP Publishing and IReL sign multi-year transformative agreement - September 11, 2020
AIP Publishing, a not-for-profit scholarly publisher in the physical sciences, has announced a multi-year Read and Publish agreement with IReL, the Irish e-resources licensing consortium for leading higher education institutions in Ireland. The agreement enables students, faculty, and researchers at eight universities to gain access… Read More
ACS Publications announces transformative read and publish agreement with NHRI - August 28, 2020
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced a transformative open access agreement with the National Health Research Institutes (NHRI) in Taiwan. The agreement, which will last through 2023, is the first partnership of this type with an institution in Asia. The deal… Read More