Guest Post – Transforming the Transformative Agreement

[…] be able to navigate this growing problem. In August 2021, Louise Russell from Tutton Russell Consulting, conducted an Open Access Workflow survey across research publishers on our behalf. While 81% of respondents have developed/are developing homegrown solutions to support the OA […]

Global Trends in Open Access: Themes from Africa, Asia and Latin America

[…] so that everyone benefits from everyone’s investment.  In this ecosystem, we have a distributed investment by different stakeholders for editorial workflows, quality assurance, metrics, aggregation of content, and discoverability, among many other services. From my perspective, this is a very […]

Measuring the Success of Transformative Agreements

[…] authors; compliance with funding guidelines (i.e., authors contribute from grant funds as called for in the model); affordability and sustainability; workflow efficiency/effectiveness; other libraries/consortia following UC’s example. UC was also the only respondent to cite impacts in the global community, […]

The “Pure Publish” Agreement

[…] to quality and responsiveness. For open access publishers, pure publish agreements with libraries also create new expectations not only for workflow management but also for new kinds of reports. PLOS, for example, is currently investing in the creating anew or […]