« The Bibsam Consortium is signing a Read & Publish agreement with the scientific publisher Elsevier. This means that Swedish researchers will have access to the publisher’s 2000 journals once more. In addition, all Swedish research articles will be published open access. (…) »
« Universities UK has convened a new group to support and enhance the mandate of Jisc in negotiating publishing agreements with major academic publishers.
The formation of this new, high-level group recognises the importance of involving senior leaders from UK institutions in order to achieve sustainable, affordable and…
« Aux Pays-Bas, les universités, réunies en consortium, négocient régulièrement avec les éditeurs de contenus scientifiques et académiques. C’est dans le cadre d’une de ces sessions de négociations qu’a été mise sur la table la possibilité d’un accès ouvert total aux publications du groupe Elsevier, en échange d’une exploitation élargie des…
« Principle-based framework aims to support the needs of scholars, reflect MIT principles, and advance science.
The MIT Libraries, together with the MIT Committee on the Library System and the Ad Hoc Task Force on Open Access to MIT’s Research, announced that it has developed a principle-based…
« (…) Yale University supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this support, Yale University Library has entered an institutional agreement with Frontiers. Under the terms of this agreement, Yale-affiliated corresponding authors will benefit from a 15% membership discount on article processing charges (APCs) when…
« Whether you have received an email directly from Elsevier, or have been reading the news coverage since early July, you may have seen some of Elsevier’s claims regarding the journal contract dispute between the publisher and UC. Here’s a fact check from UC’s negotiating team. (…) »
« On July 17, 2019, Acting Provost and Vice Provost Susan Carlson, University Librarian and Chief Digital Scholarship Officer Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, and Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director Günter Waibel briefed the UC Board of Regents’ Academic and Student Affairs Committee on open access and academic journal contracts. (…) »
« Agreement will allow for continued explorations between Elsevier, VSNU, NFU and NWO on how to work together toward future Dutch open science infrastructure services (…) »
« 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…
« La volonté des organisations, dont traite ce billet, est de négocier avec les grands éditeurs des accords qui prennent en compte à la fois le coût des abonnements et les frais de publication en accès ouvert. (…) »
