Open Access

SAGE Publishing and German Academic Institutions have entered into a new transformative agreement to secure open access publishing rights for affiliated German researchers.

Knowledge Unlatched is launching its eight pledging round in 202 - Making Open Access Work in Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) - KU is now inviting publishers to participate by submitting their titles for pledging.

Healthcare knowledge provider, BMJ, and not for profit technology provider for research and education, Jisc, have agreed a ‘publish and read’ pilot as part of their commitment to help promote knowledge and speed up discoveries to improve healthcare across the UK.

Wellcome Open Research is now the single most used venue for Wellcome-funded researchers to publish their research findings. This has been achieved after only four years since the Platform’s conception.

Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the central platform for Open Access (OA) financing models, is pleased to announce the results of 2020 pledging round, which ended in December 2020 and once again saw hundreds of libraries worldwide pledge support for OA book and journal initiatives offered by KU and its partners.

In one of the first partnerships of its kind in the U.S., the Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and Tulane University in New Orleans have entered into a transformative “read and publish” agreement.

Berghahn Journals, the social sciences publisher that flipped 13 of its anthropology journals to Open Access (OA) in 2020 by asking subscribing libraries to renew their subscriptions on a Subscribe-to-Open (S2O) basis, is pleased to announce the three-year initiative is now successfully entering its second year.

cOAlition S is pleased to announce that the Foundation for Science and Technology of Portugal (FCT) is the latest national funding agency for science, research, and technology to join the coalition and demonstrate its commitment to the realisation of full and immediate Open Access.

IOP Publishing (IOPP) has signed its first open access (OA) transformative agreement in Finland. The three year ‘read and publish’ agreement with the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) enables the institution’s authors to publish open access in 58 hybrid IOPP and partner journals at no cost to authors at point of publication.

IWA Publishing, the wholly-owned publishing subsidiary of the International Water Association based in London, UK, has successfully transformed its journal portfolio of 10 subscription titles—including the flagship journal Water Science & Technology—to Open Access (OA) from 2021 onwards.

Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics and the Royal Danish Library have agreed on a four-year contract to support continued reading and open access (OA) publishing for Danish researchers.

Brill is delighted to announce that it has concluded Transformative Agreements with Jisc in the UK and Bibsam in Sweden. Brill is one of the leading academic publishers in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law and Biology, with a broad Open Access portfolio consisting of more than 450 books and several thousand journal articles.