American Physical Society, Max Planck Gesellschaft partnership provides seamless OA publishing to MPG-affiliated researchers - July 13, 2020
The American Physical Society (APS) and the Max Planck Gesellschaft (MPG) have finalised the terms of a strategic partnership that allows MPG authors to easily publish open access in all hybrid and gold Physical Review journals at no direct cost to authors.… Read More
Spanish National Research Council and the Microbiology Society sign three-year transformative agreement - July 7, 2020
Not-for-profit Society publisher, the Microbiology Society, and the largest public institution dedicated to research in Spain, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), have announced a three-year pilot transitional open access (OA) agreement from 2021– 2023. The ’Publish and Read’ deal, will allow researchers at all CSIC’s… Read More
FinELib and Taylor & Francis announce new ‘read & publish’ agreement - July 6, 2020
FinELib, the Finnish library consortium, and academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group have announced a new ‘read & publish’ agreement, which runs until the end of 2022. Along with continued access to Taylor & Francis and Routledge journals, researchers based at one of the 15… Read More
Springer Nature and the University of California announce MOU for a transformative agreement - June 17, 2020
Open access (OA) publisher Springer Nature and the University of California (UC) have agreed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for a transformative agreement (TA). The agreement, which is the largest transformative open access agreement in North America to date, and the first… Read More
CCC’s scholarly communications workflow solution makes it easy for publishers to service authors, collect publication charges and manage transformative agreements - June 17, 2020
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, has announced that its RightsLink for Scientific Communications (RLSC), trusted by 30 leading publishers representing 2,400 journals, is managing Open Access (OA) agreements with more than 300 institutions. RLSC helps… Read More
Copyright Clearance Center to host virtual Town Hall on Transformative Agreements - June 10, 2020
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, is presenting a virtual Town Hall on June 18, 2020, to review the latest developments in Transformative Agreements and foster a discussion on how innovation is answering… Read More
swissuniversities adopt new transformative pilot agreement with Elsevier for research access and OA publishing in Switzerland - May 27, 2020
swissuniversities has adopted a new transformative pilot agreement with Elsevier for research access and open access publishing in Switzerland. The agreement is the result of the negotiations organised by the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries (CSAL) and Elsevier, a global leader in… Read More
Royal Society of Chemistry and Jisc consortium announce transformative new journals deal - May 27, 2020
The Royal Society of Chemistry and Jisc have collaborated on a transformative national deal that will provide UK institutions with access to read, and publish open access in the Royal Society of Chemistry’s peer-reviewed portfolio of hybrid journals in the chemical sciences… Read More
Jisc Collections and Brill reach Transformative Agreement for UK Libraries - May 26, 2020
Jisc Collections and the international scholarly publisher Brill have reached a Transformative Agreement for 2020, which covers the SHEDL consortium as well as all other eligible UK university libraries. Under the Agreement, academics at participating institutions benefit from reading access to the… Read More
SAGE and Norwegian consortium sign transformative agreement - May 18, 2020
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has signed a new open access publishing agreement with Unit consortium (Norwegian consortium for higher education and research), which negotiates and manages 39 licence agreements on behalf of Norwegian research libraries from the public sector. The three-year read and publish agreement applies… Read More
