| Publisher |
Portland Press |
| Agreement ID | portpress2025cdl |
| Agreement labeling | Portland Press Transformative Agreement |
| Has the agreement been disclosed and published? | To be provided soon |
| Agreement period | 01/01/2025 – 12/31/2025 |
| Consortia / Institution | California Digital Library (University of California) |
| Country | United States |
| SIZE
Approximate range of annual corresponding author publications |
12 |
| 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 |
| Comments on cost development | Fees for calendar year 2025 are based on the library-paid portion of the 2022-24 transformative agreement, which were in turn based on previous subscription contracts; no substantial change in total spend. |
| 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? |
All articles published by UC authors have their OA publication fees fully covered by the agreement, with no entitlement caps or limitations. |
| 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 mandatory |
| ARTICLE TYPES |
Original research articles Review articles Proceedings |
| ACCESS COSTS
What is the approximate share of access related costs of the overall agreement? |
5%-20% |
| Comments on access costs | In the final year of the 2022-24 agreement, reading fees represented 10% of the cost of the agreement; while this is not explicitly calculated in the 2025 agreement, the base cost is comparable |
| ACCESS COVERAGE
Are all read relevant journals covered by the agreement? |
Yes |
| PERPETUAL ACCESS RIGHTS | Yes |
| WORKFLOW ASSESSMENT | Ok |
| Comments on workflows | Authors are routed through CCC’s RightsLink to manage the publication workflow |
| OVERALL ASSESSMENT AND COMMENTS | This agreement is a shift from UC’s previous agreement with Portland Press, in that the previous agreement used UC’s multipayer model, in which the library covered the first $1000 of every article, then authors were asked to pay the remainder from research funds if they had them available for that purpose; the library would pay the remainder if the author did not have research funds available.
Because Portland Press has shifted to a primarily subscribe-to-open model, they have removed the functionality to charge a fee to authors from their workflow, making the multipayer model impossible to implement. As such, this one-year contract serves as a bridge agreement: UC authors have their publication fees fully covered for this year with minimal change to the financial picture for the libraries, while UC and Portland Press determine what a future longer-term agreement looks like. Portland Press was a constructive partner in building this interim solution, but true sustainability will be determined by the outcome of this year’s negotiation. |
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