« The Austrian Science Fund FWF, the Austrian Library Consortium (Kooperation E-Medien Österreich, KEMÖ) and Springer Nature have renewed their existing open access contract for Springer journals. The transformative agreement enables researchers and students in Austria to publish peer-reviewed research articles open access in more than 1,900 Springer journals without additional…
« (…) The subscription monopoly has been broken. Content is a commodity; it is ubiquitous. What we are paying for by subscribing to journals is as much convenience now as it is access, and the valuation paradigm has to change. The cost per use model is too simplistic a measure as…
« Springer Nature and the Unit consortium in Norway have agreed in principle a transformative read and publish deal for 2020- 2022. This will allow researchers in Norway to read articles in journals on SpringerLink and Norwegian authors to publish Open Access (OA) in all of Springer Nature’s Open Choice portfolio…
« Transformative open access agreements has recently come into use as an umbrella term for a type of comprehensive publisher agreement. According to the ESAC Initiative (Efficiency and Standards for Article Charges):
Transformative agreements are those contracts negotiated between institutions (libraries, national and regional consortia) and…
« Jisc and academic publisher Springer Nature have agreed a further ‘read and publish’ agreement that meets the aims of Plan S and offers researchers a funder compliant route to publishing in hybrid journals. (…) »
« Is it every day or just every week that we see an announcement of a new “transformative agreement” between a publisher and a library or library consortium? Or, if not a press release announcing such an agreement, a statement that such is the goal of a newly opened — or…
« The Norwegian consortium for higher education and research and Elsevier, the global information analytics business specializing in science and health, today agreed to a pilot national license, providing Norwegian researchers with access to global academic research while making Norwegian research accessible through open access publishing. The…
« Contexte
Depuis deux années, les relations entre les bibliothèques universitaires et les éditeurs de revues scientifiques (éditeurs commerciaux et certaines sociétés savantes) se sont sensiblement dégradées en raison du poids budgétaire désormais intenable que font peser les principaux abonnements sur les budgets des bibliothèques. Cela se traduit par des…
« John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE:JWA)(NYSE:JWB), a global leader in research and education, and Unit – The Norwegian Directorate for ICT and Joint Services in Higher Education and Research – today announced a combined open access and subscription agreement effective March 14, 2019. (…) »
« Après la l’Université de Californie**, le 28 février dernier, c’est au tour de la Norvège, le mardi 13 mars 2019 de dénoncer les accords avec Elsevier, pour des raisons très semblables. (…) »
