Open Access

Springer Nature has today announced the intention for a new 5 year Transformative Agreement (TA) with the German DEAL Consortium. This will  build upon its successful landmark 2020 agreement, which has delivered  a more than  threefold increase in open access (OA)  article output with around 15,800 OA articles published in 2022, including almost 15,000 under DEAL.

Over 700 institutions in 42 countries are now participating. We have agreements with thirteen library consortia, following new agreements with IISER, JULAC and ZB Med – Information Centre for Life Sciences as well as the renewal and expansion of our agreement with Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL).

Karger Publishers and Jisc have reached a three-year agreement by once again expanding Open Access (OA) research publishing and, for the first time, providing authors and institutions with the opportunity to bring their knowledge to a broader, non-scientific public. 

Edinburgh University Press (EUP) is launching a Subscribe to Open pilot in 2024 for two Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies journals – Afghanistan and the Journal of Holy Land...

Wiley today announced its intent to enter a new five-year agreement with the DEAL Consortium, a countrywide consortium representative of more than 1,000 academic institutions in Germany, commencing January 2024. Wiley and DEAL are creating a blueprint for the next phase of open access publishing to better meet the evolving needs of the scholarly community.  

Springer Nature has agreed a Transformative Agreement (TA) in Hong Kong with all member libraries of the Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee (JULAC). This is the publisher’s first TA in this important region and, with over 700 articles published OA each year, will be the region’s largest TA.

Researchers in Germany will see a major boost to the reach and impact of their work as they join authors in other European countries benefitting from Taylor & Francis open access (OA) agreements.

The Company of Biologists is delighted to announce a new three-year Read & Publish Open Access consortia offer with ZB Med – Information Centre...

The global Open Science movement is an essential cornerstone of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); ensuring the accessibility and reproducibility of scientific research, and the inclusivity of global education models, the advancement of Open Science is a matter of paramount importance for every nation.

The MIT Press will use the funds to flip two paywalled journals to open access and compare the feasibility of diamond open access models for STEM and humanities and social sciences (HSS) journals

Beginning Oct. 1, 2023, the Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) will provide authors with a new option to satisfy funder requirements for zero-embargo green open access. Through this pathway, authors will be able to post accepted manuscripts with a CC BY license in open access repositories immediately upon acceptance.

Taylor & Francis is marking an open access (OA) milestone with a showcase of 'must read' books and chapters highlighting the role of OA in driving progress on global issues. Negotiating Bioethics became the first fully open access Taylor & Francis book in 2013. Ten years later, with a list of more than 1,500 OA titles and thousands and of individual open chapters, Taylor & Francis is one of the world’s leading open access book publishers.