A small group of open access publishers recently posted a collective statement on the Frontiers platform making a number of assertions and recommendations with regard to transformative agreements. A close reading of the statement reveals an understandable, if misdirected, level of frustration among the signatory publishers, likely fomented by a lack of first-hand knowledge of […]
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Negotiating with scholarly journal publishers: A toolkit from the University of California
A great ressource for negotiators around the globe has been published by University of California
EUA publishes 2019 Big Deals Survey Report
According to a freshly published survey report by the European University Association, one billion euros per year is the amount paid in Europe for accessing scholarly publications, while the bulk of these costs fall on Europe’s universities. EUA releases updated mapping of major publishing contracts mentioning ESAC as an important initiative to increase transparency: https://eua.eu/resources/publications/829:2019-big-deals-survey-report.html
Scholarly Kitchen on Transformative Agreements
Today, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe published an introduction to the basic principles of Transformative Agreements on Scholarly Kitchen referncing the ESAC initiative.
Cambridge University Press and the University of California Agree to Open Access Publishing Deal
The University of California and Cambridge University Press have entered into a transformative agreement that will advance the global shift toward an open access future for research. Read the press release
De Gruyter and CzechELib sign “read and publish” agreement for access and open access
CzechELib, the National Centre for Electronic Information Resources of the Czech Republic and De Gruyter have signed an agreement to provide access to De Gruyter journal collections. The agreement also provides authors affiliated to the subscribing institutions with an open access publishing option in both hybrid and “gold” De Gruyter open access journals with no […]
1st DEAL done – All German research articles in Wiley journals to be published open access under new transformative agreement
Germany’s Projekt DEAL and the publisher John Wiley & Sons have entered a ground-breaking transformative agreement, in line with the objectives of the Open Access 2020 initiative. Under this new agreement, all authors affiliated with 700 academic institutions in Germany will retain copyright and their accepted articles will be published open access in Wiley journals. […]
De Gruyter and Iowa State University sign “read and publish” agreement
After MIT libraries have signed an open access agreement with the Royal Society of Chemistry last year, a further transformative agreement has now been reached in the US between Iowa State University and the German publisher De Gruyter. See the full press release
EUA asks European Commission to investigate lack of competition in the scholarly publishing business sector
The EUA Council adopted a statement on 26 October 2018 expressing its concern about the lack of transparency and competition in the scholarly publishing business sector in Europe. The statement, addressed to the European Commission, asks for an investigation to clarify if competition rules guarantee fair competition market conditions. Read full press release
Happy Open Access Week! Let’s develop a culture of sharing! ESAC Initiative becomes an information-sharing hub for OA negotiators
As anticipated at the ICOLC meeting in London and the OA2020 Transformation Lab in Prague, we announce the re-launch of the ESAC Initiative and website (https://esac-initiative.org/) with a number of extremely valuable crowd-sourced tools and resources related to transitional license models (ie Offsetting, Read & Publish, etc.). With more and more library consortia and individual […]
