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IOP Publishing signs its first transformative agreement with VTT -

IOP Publishing (IOPP) has signed its first open access (OA) transformative agreement with the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT). The three year ‘read and publish’ agreement enables the institution’s authors to publish open access in 58 hybrid IOPP and partner journals at no cost to… Read More

Elsevier and the Royal Danish Library enter into an agreement for reading and open access publishing -

Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics and the Royal Danish Library have agreed on a four-year contract to support continued reading and open access (OA) publishing for Danish researchers. This is the first time the Danish consortium led by the Royal Danish Library… Read More

Brill reaches Transformative Agreements with Jisc and Bibsam -

Brill has announced that it has concluded Transformative Agreements with Jisc in the UK and Bibsam in Sweden. Brill is claimed to be one of the leading academic publishers in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law and Biology, with a broad Open Access portfolio… Read More

Springer Nature and Jisc extend commitment to open access publishing -

Springer Nature and Jisc have extended the UK Compact agreement by including the prestigious Academic Journals (AJs) on nature.com that includes some of the world’s most internationally renowned medical titles. The extension of the transformative agreement demonstrates both Springer Nature and Jisc's commitment to… Read More

The Company of Biologists and the Max Planck Digital Library enter into Read & Publish Open Access agreement -

The Company of Biologists has announced a three-year Read & Publish Open Access agreement with the Max Planck Digital Library. Under the new cost-neutral transformative agreement – which runs from January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2023 – corresponding authors at Max Planck… Read More

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. and Max Planck Digital Library enter into Read & Publish agreement -

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers and the Max Planck Digital Library have entered into a three-year Read and Publish agreement. Covering all Mary Ann Leibert, Inc. journals previously subscribed, the transformative agreement covers the cost for open access publishing of all articles by corresponding… Read More

Max Planck Society signs Portland Press’ Read & Publish deal -

The Max Planck Society is the latest organisation to sign-up to the Biochemical Society and Portland Presspilot Read & Publish transformative deal. The deal provides Max Planck researchers with unlimited open access (OA) publishing and ‘read’ access… Read More

Cambridge University Press and Jisc reach UK-wide flexible open access read and publish agreement -

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 -

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 -

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


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