CAUL signs first transformative agreement with Portland Press - November 1, 2019
The Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) is the first library consortium to sign a transformative agreement with the Biochemical Society (Portland Press), the wholly-owned publishing subsidiary of the Biochemical Society. This is CAUL’s second such agreement following announcement of the first… Read More
Biochemical Society and Portland Press issues joint statement on open scholarship and ‘transformative renewals’ supporting open access - October 28, 2019
The Biochemical Society has released a statement on open scholarship issued with its publishing subsidiary, Portland Press. This statement sets out their joint position based on the Society and Portland Press’ strategy for 2019-2021. In addition to open access, the statement encompasses open science more broadly… Read More
OUP and the University of Vienna announce transformative Read & Publish agreement - October 17, 2019
Academic publisher Oxford University Press has announced a transformative Read & Publish agreement with the University of Vienna. The agreement includes access to OUP’s entire journal collection for 12 months. It will allow researchers at the University of Vienna to publish articles via Open Access in… Read More
CCC’s market-leading cloud-based solution expands to support industry transition to transformative agreements - October 9, 2019
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, has announced the release of RightsLink® for Scientific Communications, formerly RightsLink Author, which builds on a market-leading platform to help publishers quickly model and support a wide variety of transformative agreements.… Read More
Norway’s UNIT and Taylor & Francis Group announce three-year partnership - October 4, 2019
UNIT – The Norwegian Directorate for ICT and Joint Services in Higher Education and Research – and academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group has announced the signing of a three-year partnership, beginning in 2020. Providing long-term stability and certainty over access and costs, this transformative… Read More
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
