acs2025snu

Publisher

American Chemical Society
Agreement ID acs2025snu
Has the agreement been fully disclosed and published? No
Agreement period 01/01/2025 – 12/31/2027
Consortia / Institution Seoul National University
Country South Korea
SIZE

Approximate range of annual corresponding author publications

 170
Comments on size/article output Total 226 articles. (2025) 72 articles, (2026) 75 articles, (2027) 79 articles can be published. Covers approximately 40% of the annual publication output.
COSTS

How do the costs of the agreement relate to previous subscription-only agreements with the publisher?

 Agreement costs within the range of the previous spending level
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 fully converted to OA publishing fees (access related costs 5% or less)
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?

 If there are remaining tokens, they will remain valid for 12 months after the contract period. However, they can only be used for OA publication of papers that are accepted within the contract period.
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? Yes
OA LICENSE CC-BY or CC-BY-NC-ND
ARTICLE TYPES
 All article types are included, except additions, corrections, editorials, and ebooks
ACCESS COSTS

What is the approximate share of access related costs of the overall agreement?

 More than 50%
ACCESS COVERAGE

Are all read relevant journals covered by the agreement?

 Yes
PERPETUAL ACCESS RIGHTS Yes
WORKFLOW ASSESSMENT Too early to assess
OVERALL ASSESSMENT AND COMMENTS – This is an institutional contract between Seoul National University and the publisher

– It seems that a significantly larger number of papers can be published as OA compared to the additional costs. The proportion of OA publications is expected to improve from 11% to 40%.
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