ACS signs first North American ‘read and publish’ agreement with Louisiana State University - February 25, 2020
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Louisiana State University (LSU) have announced a transformative open access agreement. The agreement provides researchers at LSU with full access to ACS journals and allows for financial support for corresponding authors at the university to… Read More
American Chemical Society and the Bibsam Consortium in Sweden sign ‘Read and Publish’ agreement - February 24, 2020
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Bibsam Consortium in Sweden have announced a transformative open access agreement that supports publishing for authors affiliated at 21 academic member institutions, including universities, university colleges and government-funded research institutions. Under the three-year agreement, authors… Read More
American Chemical Society and the Austrian Academic Library Consortium (KEMÖ) announce their first ‘Read and Publish’ agreement - February 21, 2020
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Austrian Academic Library Consortium (Kooperation E-Medien Österreich; KEMÖ) have agreed to partner for the next three years in a transformative open access pilot agreement. This will enable corresponding authors, affiliated with 11 Austrian research… Read More
Irish Higher Education Institutions and Elsevier sign a pilot transformative agreement to support open access for research in Ireland - February 18, 2020
A consortium of publicly-funded Irish higher education institutions and Elsevier, a global leader in information analytics specialising in science and health, have agreed to the country's first open access program with a major scientific publisher towards the goal of full open access to Irish research publications.… Read More
Wiley and FinELib sign transitional agreement continuing expansion in OA - February 13, 2020
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., a global leader in research and education, and FinELib, a Finnish consortium of higher education and research institutions, have announced a new three-year license that combines an open access and subscription agreement, effective February 2020. This 3-year agreement will provide 22… Read More
SAGE and Sweden’s Bibsam Consortium announce transformative Open Access agreement - February 10, 2020
SAGE Publishing is signing a new open access publishing agreement with Bibsam Consortium, serving 42 of the member institutions including universities, university colleges, and government funded research institutions. The three-year read and publish agreement applies to all articles received and accepted from January 1, 2020 and… Read More
Brill and Dutch Universities reach transformative agreement - February 6, 2020
UKB, the Dutch consortium of university libraries, and international scholarly publisher Brill have reached a Transformative Agreement for the years 2020 and 2021. The agreement provides reading access to Dutch researchers at 9 institutions and allows for unlimited Open Access publishing in all Brill journals. Brill’s… Read More
Cambridge University Press and the Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources announce transformative OA agreement - January 28, 2020
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press has reached a transformative Open Access agreement with the Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources (JUSTICE). It is the first such read and publish deal signed with JUSTICE by any publisher, the first major read and publish deal in… Read More
ACM signs new open-access agreements with four leading universities - January 24, 2020
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has entered into transformative open access agreements with several of its institutional customers, including the University of California (UC), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Iowa State University (ISU). The agreements, which run for three-year terms… Read More
IOP Publishing signs new OA agreements with Dutch universities - January 22, 2020
Researchers from four institutions in the Netherlands will soon benefit from unlimited open access publishing in IOP Publishing (IOPP) journals. The move is the result of a series of recently agreed ‘read and publish’ agreements. IOPP, a pioneer in open access physics publishing, has secured the… Read More