bmj2025kemoe

Publisher

BMJ Publishing Group
Agreement ID bmj2025kemoe
Agreement labeling Read and Publish Agreement
Has the agreement been fully disclosed and published? No
Agreement period 01/01/2025 – 12/31/2027
Consortia / Institution KEMOE
Country Austria
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
Comments on cost development The first TA agreement with BMJ. Agreement costs are based on the subscription costs of the last year of the previous term 2021-2024, which was a subscription-only agreement, and the publication costs in 2023 and 2024. For the current term, the total costs for subscription and publishing were subject to an increase and now cover both reading access and publishing.
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?

 Partly publication-based pricing
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?

 Not applicable
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? Fully OA titles are included selectively
OA LICENSE CC-BY variations allowed
ARTICLE TYPES
 Case Studies, Commentaries, Data Articles, Educations, Lectures, Methods and Protocols, Perspectives, Practices and Policies, Rapid Publications, Research Articles, Review Articles, Short Communications and Technical Notes and others
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 Ok
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