| Publisher |
Canadian Science Publishing |
| Agreement ID | csp2024cdl |
| Has the agreement been disclosed and published? | Yes |
| URL | https://ucop.box.com/s/ 7410zssn4uu6gn696on12m6tnvwvmbg2 |
| Agreement period | 01/01/2024 – 12/31/2026 |
| Consortia / Institution | California Digital Library (University of California) |
| Country | United States |
| SIZE
Approximate range of annual corresponding author publications |
8 |
| COSTS
How do the costs of the agreement relate to previous subscription-only agreements with the publisher? |
Cost decrease |
| Comments on cost development | Total cost is lower than previous subscription contracts due to one campus withdrawing from the agreement. Cost has been held fixed for all years of the transformative agreement contracts to date. |
| 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? |
The agreement features the following risk-control mechanism: there is a minimum and maximum set for the total fees that will be billed to UC in each year of the agreement |
| 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 preference, exceptions allowed |
| ARTICLE TYPES |
Original research articles Review articles |
| ACCESS COSTS
What is the approximate share of access related costs of the overall agreement? |
20%-50% |
| Comments on access costs | The Base Fee within the agreement continues to include a Reading and Publishing Services Fee which is set at half of the Base Fee |
| ACCESS COVERAGE
Are all read relevant journals covered by the agreement? |
Yes |
| PERPETUAL ACCESS RIGHTS | Yes |
| WORKFLOW ASSESSMENT | Ok |
| Comments on workflows | Upon acceptance, authors are notified in the ScholarOne platform about the option to publish open access, after which an institution-specific open access payment form is presented to the author. The payment form reflects the “multipayer” workflow common across UC’s agreements, under which all authors receive an automatic $1000 contribution from the UC libraries; authors with grant funds available for publication are asked to pay the remaining APC, while authors without such funds may request full coverage. |
| OVERALL ASSESSMENT AND COMMENTS | This agreement is a continuation of UC’s agreement with Canadian Science Publishing, and has become part of a large suite of agreements between CSP and various global partners.
The agreement continues to instantiate UC’s “multipayer model,” allowing UC corresponding authors to publish an unlimited number of research articles immediately open access, incorporating grant funding where possible. Under the agreement, the UC libraries will automatically pay the first $1,000 of the open access fee, or article processing charge (APC), for all UC authors who choose to publish in a CSP journal. Authors are asked to pay the remainder if they have research funds available to do so. Authors who do not have research funds available can request full funding of the APC from the libraries, ensuring that lack of research funds does not present a barrier for UC authors who wish to publish open access in CSP journals. By combining funding from the libraries with authors’ grant funds, this cost sharing model, along with the cost controls in the agreement, provides a model for how institutions that produce a significant amount of grant-funded research can create a sustainable and inclusive path to full open access. |
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