« In 2014, a union of German research organisations established Projekt DEAL, a national-level project to negotiate licensing agreements with large scientific publishers. Negotiations between DEAL and Elsevier began in 2016, and broke down without a successful agreement in 2018; in this time, around 200 German research institutions cancelled their license…
« This post should not have come into existence. In fact, for a long time, “contracts” and “agreements” between publishers and higher education and research consortia have not only been proprietary texts, but filled with confidentiality clauses that prevented them to be disclosed. This culture of secrecy is still there, as…
« Springer Nature and MPDL Services GmbH on behalf of Projekt DEAL today announce that the formal contract for the world’s largest transformative Open Access (OA) agreement to date has been signed. Dated 1 January 2020, the agreement provides OA publishing services and full reading access to Springer Nature journals to…
« In late August, Springer Nature and Germany’s Projekt DEAL announced that they had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) laying out the fundamentals of a national-level transformative open access agreement, whereby “more than 13,000 articles by German scholars and scientists are expected…
« (…) A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed today between MPDL Services, on behalf of Projekt DEAL, and Springer Nature sets the scene for the world’s most comprehensive open access (OA) agreement to be finalised later this year.
Reaching such an understanding has been possible through acknowledgement of the common…
« Projekt DEAL and Wiley have partnered to support institutions and researchers to advance open research, drive discovery, and develop and spread knowledge.
Listen to one of these two informative webinars to hear more about the new open access agreement for authors at eligible German institutions. (…) »
(…) On 1 July 2019, the DEAL agreement with Wiley will become fully effective.
The agreement provides members of the Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH) with online access to all Wiley journals. At the same time, it turns Open Access into the standard mode of publication for scientists and scholars…
« With the signing of the Wiley contract on 15 January 2019, the alliance project DEAL has achieved key project goals:
to improve the provision of information to participating academic institutions by extending reading access to all the journals published by Wiley, the expansion of open-access publishing…« Project Deal, a consortium of libraries, universities, and research institutes in Germany, has unveiled an unprecedented deal with a major journal publisher—Wiley—that is drawing close scrutiny from advocates of open access to scientific papers; (…) »
« Full text of the “Publish&Read” agreement between Project DEAL and Wiley signed 15th January 2019. (…) »
