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
Springer Nature’s Transformative Agreements facilitate country level transition to OA - August 25, 2020
Transformative Agreements (TAs) continue to have an influential and driving impact on enabling a country to flip to a fully open access (OA) environment sustainably and effectively. The latest data from Springer Nature on the growth of OA publishing as a result of its national TAs… Read More
Max Planck Society and AIP Publishing announce multi-year read and publish agreement - August 20, 2020
AIP Publishing, a leading not-for-profit scholarly publisher in the physical sciences, has announced a multi-year Read and Publish agreement with the Max Planck Society. The Max Planck Society is Germany’s leading research organisation, with affiliated institutes, centers, and facilities around the world… Read More
KAUST and ACM announce new transformative OA agreement - August 20, 2020
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have entered into a new transformative open access agreement. The agreement, which runs for a three-year term beginning January 1, 2020, covers both access to and open access publication in ACM’s… Read More
University of Vienna and AIP Publishing sign new ‘Read and Publish’ agreement extend benefits of 2019 pilot - July 30, 2020
AIP Publishing, a not-for-profit scholarly publisher in the physical sciences, has announced that University of Vienna in Austria has converted their successful ‘Read and Publish’ pilot project, begun in May 2019, into a full agreement. The University of Vienna was the first academic institution to join… Read More
American Chemical Society and the Polish Academic Consortium sign transformative OA agreement - July 24, 2020
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has signed a transformative ‘read and publish’ agreement with the Polish Academic Consortium. The agreement, which lasts through 2022, will benefit 51 institutions across Poland and will enable hundreds of articles to be made open access each… Read More
AIP Publishing signs multi-year Read and Publish agreement with Tokyo University of Science - July 14, 2020
AIP Publishing, a leading not-for-profit scholarly publisher in the physical sciences, has announced that they have signed a multi-year ‘Read and Publish’ agreement with the Tokyo University of Science (TUS) in Japan. The agreement reflects the publisher’s commitment to developing a transformative publishing model that… Read More
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