| Publisher |
AIP Publishing |
| Agreement ID | aip2024fg |
| Agreement labeling | AIP Publish & Read Agreement |
| Has the agreement been fully disclosed and published? | No |
| Agreement period | 04/01/2024 – 12/31/2026 |
| Consortia / Institution | Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft e. V. |
| Country | Germany |
| SIZE
Approximate range of annual corresponding author publications |
30 |
| COSTS
How do the costs of the agreement relate to previous subscription-only agreements with the publisher? |
Cost increase |
| FINANCIAL SHIFT
Transformative agreements vary by their transformative mechanisms, meaning the way in which financing is shifted from the subscription side to open access publishing. What are the characteristics of this agreement to this regard? |
Subscriptions partly converted to OA publishing fees |
| RISK SHARING
How do entitlements for open access publishing correlate to the anticipated article output? Which mechanisms for risk sharing have been agreed in cases of exceeding or not reaching the number of OA publishing entitlements? |
There is an article cap in place, but projected number of articles during term of agreement is below article cap (minimal risk for exceeding article allowance, however additional articles will be invoiced in addition to annual fee) |
| OA COVERAGE
Are all journals relevant to your affiliated authors (in which you expect them to publish) eligible for OA publishing under the agreement? |
Yes |
| Are fully open access journals covered by the agreement? | No |
| OA LICENSE | CC-BY mandatory |
| ARTICLE TYPES |
Original research articles Review articles Proceedings Letters |
| ACCESS COSTS
What is the approximate share of access related costs of the overall agreement? |
20%-50% |
| ACCESS COVERAGE
Are all read relevant journals covered by the agreement? |
Yes |
| PERPETUAL ACCESS RIGHTS | Yes |
| WORKFLOW ASSESSMENT | Deficient |
| Comments on workflows | Publisher’s process of matching author’s eligible articles is in need of improvement/unsatisfactory. Consequently, in the past contract term a large amount of eligible articles have not been published OA in the first instance and needed to be converted to OA retroactively in a manual process. |
| OVERALL ASSESSMENT AND COMMENTS | Future agreements need to further reduce the access costs and aim at unlimited publishing |
| Request contact to the licensee | contact@esac-initiative.org |