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[SCONUL – RLUK] Libraries call on academic colleagues to help shift to full open academic publishing
23/05/2023

[SCONUL – RLUK] Libraries call on academic colleagues to help shift to full open academic publishing

« SCONUL and RLUK welcomed today’s announcement of an agreement with Springer Nature1 as the best outcome that could reasonably have been achieved but are calling on academic colleagues to work with the library community to deliver the cultural shift needed to make academic publishing sustainable and affordable. (…) »

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Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany: Recommendations for Transformative Journal Agreements with Providers of Publishing Services
07/12/2022

Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany: Recommendations for Transformative Journal Agreements with Providers of Publishing Services

« With its internal Open Access Strategy 2021–2025, the Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany provides a framework to further shape the process of transforming the scholarly publishing system to open access.
These formulated criteria will serve as a common, action-guiding framework for actors from all science organizations – that…

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How open are hybrid journals included in nationwide transformative agreements in Germany?
07/06/2022

How open are hybrid journals included in nationwide transformative agreements in Germany?

« We present hoaddata, an experimental R package that combines open scholarly data from the German Open Access Monitor, Crossref and OpenAlex. Using this package, we illustrate the progress made in publishing open access content in hybrid journals included in nationwide transformative agreements in Germany across journal portfolios and countries. (…) »

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Transformative agreements: Six myths, busted
08/07/2021

Transformative agreements: Six myths, busted

« Transformative agreement (TA) is an umbrella term used to describe contracts between institutions and publishers intended to transform the current, primarily subscription-based, journal publishing model to a fully open access (OA) model. The idea originated in a 2015 white paper from the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL), which posited that…

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