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
Springer Nature and swissuniversities reach understanding on a new transformative agreement - April 17, 2020
Springer Nature has reached an understanding on a new transformative read and publish deal with swissuniversities. Both parties have signed a Memorandum of Understanding; the final agreement will be concluded between Springer Nature and the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries this summer. Once signed, the… Read More
AIP Publishing signs multi-year Read and Publish agreement with KAUST - April 17, 2020
AIP Publishing, a not-for-profit scholarly publisher in the physical sciences, has signed a multi-year ‘Read and Publish’ agreement with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. KAUST is the first university from the Middle… Read More
Springer Nature commits to transitioning majority of its journals amid revised ‘Transformative Journal’ criteria from cOAlition S - April 8, 2020
Springer Nature welcomes the decision from cOAlition S to support Transformative Journals. Subject to acceptability of the yet to be published transparency requirements, it commits to transition the vast majority of its Springer Nature-owned English language journals that are not already Open Access, including Nature and… Read More
Springer Nature announces new transformative read and publish deal with Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India - April 7, 2020
Springer Nature recently announced its first transformative read and publish deal within Asia, with the Manipal Academy of Higher Education in India. Under the terms of the arrangement researchers affiliated with the Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, Manipal Academy of Higher Education and The T.A. Pai… Read More
ACM signs new transformative open access publishing agreement with IreL, the Irish e-resource licensing consortium - April 3, 2020
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has entered into a transformative open access agreement with IReL, the Irish e-resource licensing consortium. The agreement covers both access to and open access publication in ACM’s journals, proceedings and magazines for eight Irish universities, including Dublin City University, Maynooth… Read More
MDPI co-signed position statement on transformative agreements - March 20, 2020
The advantages of the open access model of scientific publishing are being increasingly recognised in the scientific community. It allows new scientific evidence to be accessed from the moment of publication for free by anyone around the globe, boosting the impact of new research. In response, many funders, libraries and… Read More
Cambridge University Press reaches transformative OA agreement with the Austrian Academic Library Consortium - March 3, 2020
Cambridge University Press has reached a transformative Open Access agreement with the Austrian Academic Library Consortium (Kooperation E-Medien Österreich, KEMÖ). The three-year ‘read and publish’ deal will cover 10 of the Consortium’s affiliated research institutions, including nine universities and one institute. Read and publish deals… Read More
