ARL supports University of California Libraries’ commitment to barrier free access to information - October 1, 2019
The Libraries of the University of California (UC) are seeking transformative agreements with publishers such that access to the research of UC faculty is open to all, not limited to those who can afford it. In February 2019, the UC Libraries withdrew from negotiations with publisher Elsevier due to lack… Read More
Independent Report and Transformative Agreement Toolkit Launched to Support Learned Society Publishers’ Transition to Immediate Open Access and Align with Plan S - September 13, 2019
The report and toolkit are designed to help support learned society publishers to accelerate their transition to Open Access (OA), and enter into transformative agreements that unlock a multi-year transitional pathway compliant with Plan S for hybrid OA titles. Plan S, an initiative of international funders and charitable foundations called… Read More
Springer Nature and the Austrian Academic Library Consortium renew open access contract for Springer journals - September 3, 2019
Springer Nature and the Austrian Academic Library Consortium (Kooperation E-Medien Österreich KEMÖ) have renewed their existing open access contract for Springer journals. The transformative agreement enables researchers and students in Austria to publish peer-reviewed research articles open access in more than 1,900 Springer journals without additional… Read More
Projekt DEAL and Springer Nature reach understanding on world’s largest transformative OA agreement - August 22, 2019
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between MPDL Services, on behalf of Projekt DEAL, and Springer Nature, sets the scene for the world’s most comprehensive open access (OA) agreement to be finalised later this year. Reaching such an understanding has been possible through acknowledgement of the… Read More
Cambridge University Press reaches Open Access agreement with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology - August 7, 2019
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press has signed a transformative Open Access agreement with the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The three-year agreement advances on the traditional journals subscription model, combining reading access and open access publishing under… Read More
Two new ‘read and publish’ deals drives Springer Nature’s transformative deals into double figures - June 27, 2019
Springer Nature has announced new agreements with the Bibsam consortium in Sweden and Norway’s Unit consortium, taking the number of Springer Nature’s ‘read and publish’ deals to ten, putting the publisher firmly on the path to becoming a transformative publisher. In a first for Springer Nature,… Read More
Ten members of the Dutch library consortium renew agreement with Karger Publishers - June 12, 2019
Ten members of the Dutch library consortium ‘samenwerkingsverband van Nederlandse universiteitsbibliotheken en de Koninklijke Bibliotheek’ (UKB) have renewed an agreement with Karger Publishers which includes the publication of Open Access (OA) articles for authors at these universities. This transformative agreement is an important step in… Read More
University of Vienna becomes first European academic institution to join AIP Publishing’s ‘Read and Publish’ pilot program - June 3, 2019
AIP Publishing, a not-for-profit scholarly publisher in the physical sciences, has announced that the University of Vienna has signed an agreement to participate in AIP Publishing’s ‘Read and Publish’ pilot program. The University of Vienna is the first European academic institution to join the pilot, which… Read More
Cambridge University Press and the University of California enter OA publishing deal - April 11, 2019
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press and the University of California have entered into a transformative agreement that will advance the global shift toward an open access future for research. The agreement is designed to maintain UC’s access to Cambridge’s journals, while also supporting open access… Read More
American Chemical Society and Max Planck institutes announce collaborative open access strategic partnership - April 1, 2019
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Max Planck Gesellschaft (MPG) have announced a collaborative open access strategic partnership that will advance shared goals for open science and enhance convenience for the MPG researcher and author community. Effective… Read More
