The ESAC Transformative Agreement Registry has surpassed the milestone of one thousand agreements! The ESAC Registry has so far documented the negotiations of libraries and consortia in more than 70 countries with 60+ publishers, which have enabled scholars and scientists from around the world to publish more than 1 million peer-reviewed articles immediately open access […]
Transformative Agreements
Everything librarians need to know about TAs!
ESAC Reference Guide to Transformative Agreements – now expanded and updated
Community of Practice Call – Publishing workflow and library processing workflow
The success of the transition to open access in scholarly publishing is intimately related to the streamlining, intuitiveness and efficiency of the publication and access workflows. This crucial aspect is reflected in one of the main transformation drivers on ESAC’s “How transformative is it?” spectrum, where the envisioned goal is to achieve a state where […]
Community of Practice Call – Enabling open access: author engagement and article submission processes under transformative agreements
Making it easy for researchers to publish their articles open access is not just a question of eliminating—or significantly lowering—the financial obstacles of APCs. Library and publisher processes, workflows, and communication streams are still deeply rooted in the old logic of accessing and producing content behind subscription paywalls. In order for “open” to become the […]
Community of Practice Call – How are transformative agreements actually transforming the subscription system and enabling an open paradigm?
Transformative agreements are those contracts negotiated between institutions (libraries, national and regional consortia) and publishers in which library funds previously used to pay for subscription access are used, instead, to support the costs of open access publishing of articles of an institution’s or consortium members’ researchers—as well as the reading access required for content still […]
Webinar: Talk with the experts about the new ESAC Resources on Transformative Agreements
On Wednesday, 19th January 2022, members of the ESAC community will share a few of their personal experiences in preparing, negotiating and implementing transformative agreements and their insights which informed the creation of the recently published resources “ESAC Reference Guide on Transformative Agreements”, “How Transformative Is It” spectrum and the “2021 Enhancements to the ESAC Workflow […]
New open resource: the ESAC Market Watch on key trends as scholarly journal publishing transitions to OA
To help research institutions, their libraries, and library consortia better understand their position in the scholarly publishing market and make strategic considerations regarding their interactions with commercial publishers, the ESAC Initiative has relaunched its Market Watch to inform the broader community of a number of key trends in the demographics and distribution of scholarly journal […]
How transformative agreements are enabling the open access transition
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 […]