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
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