Lyrasis and the Royal Society of Chemistry sign transformative open access agreement - March 14, 2024
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and Lyrasis have entered into an open access publishing agreement to accelerate momentum toward global open access scholarship. This partnership is one of the first and largest library consortium-based open access agreements with RSC in… Read More
Taylor & Francis and Vanderbilt University’s Heard Libraries announce three-year transformative agreement - March 6, 2024
Vanderbilt University’s Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries and Taylor & Francis, a leading academic publisher, have signed a new three-year read-and-publish agreement that expands the breadth of journals available to Vanderbilt researchers and enhances the potential reach and impact of their published work. Under… Read More
The Company of Biologists’ Read & Publish initiative gains momentum worldwide - March 1, 2024
The Company of Biologists is thrilled to announce a remarkable milestone in its Read & Publish Open Access (OA) initiative, with the number of participating institutions soaring by 37% since January 2023. Now, 825 institutions across 49 countries are actively engaged in this transformative… Read More
Springer Nature announces new Transformative Agreement with Lyrasis - February 28, 2024
Springer Nature has reached a new Transformative Agreement (TA) with Lyrasis, a non-profit member organization working globally to serve libraries and other institutions. The four-year deal covers some 120 institutions and includes eight Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) benefiting from greater access to articles. In addition,… Read More
The Company of Biologists and JUSTICE Consortium, Japan, Forge New Read & Publish Alliance - February 23, 2024
In a significant stride towards fostering open access in the realm of biology research, The Company of Biologists has unveiled a Read & Publish Open Access agreement with the Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources (JUSTICE). Spanning the years 2024 to 2026, this pioneering agreement… Read More
Rutgers announces transformative OA agreement with Elsevier - February 22, 2024
Rutgers University has announced a transformative open-access partnership with Elsevier, a global leader in information, scientific research, and analytics. This agreement marks an important step toward making the results of Rutgers’ research openly accessible, increasing its readership and impact, and ensuring it is globally… Read More
Jisc, UK institutions, and Wiley renew open access agreement - February 22, 2024
Wiley, a global leader in research and learning, has renewed its “read and publish” transitional agreement (TA) with Jisc, which offers researchers at UK universities open access (OA) publishing in all Wiley journals at no cost to them. The renewed agreement provides unrestricted… Read More
CRKN and Oxford University Press sign new three-year, read-and-publish agreement - February 22, 2024
CRKN has signed a new three-year, read-and-publish agreement with Oxford University Press. Authors at CRKN member institutions will benefit from unlimited open access publishing in more than 350 Oxford hybrid journals at no cost to the author (i.e. with no article processing charge (APC)),… Read More
Elsevier and Vanderbilt University’s Heard Libraries announce five-year open access transformative agreement - February 21, 2024
Elsevier, a global leader in information analytics and scientific publishing, has announced a five-year read and publish agreement with Vanderbilt University’s Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries that will advance open science and enhance access to scholarly research. The transformative agreement, which is effective… Read More
Emerald Publishing and Texas A&M University announce Read and Publish agreement - February 19, 2024
In a move set to redefine academic publishing norms, Emerald Publishing and Texas A&M University have inked a pioneering agreement aimed at fostering open access to scholarly research. The landmark deal will grant Texas A&M researchers open access publishing rights in 2024 while affording… Read More
