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Archives: transformative agreements

Leveraging Transformative Agreements for Research Integrity

Publishers need institutions as partners in addressing research integrity issues. Transformative agreements provide an ideal framework for fostering these partnerships.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Oct 21, 2024
  • 23 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Researcher to Reader Recap

Heather Staines offers a recap of the most recent Researcher to Reader meeting.

  • By Heather Staines
  • May 7, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post – Making Sense of Open Access Business Models

A classification scheme for open access business models.

  • By Tasha Mellins-Cohen
  • Mar 26, 2024
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post: Mind the Gap – Understanding China’s Perspective on Research Integrity and Open Access

Nicko Goncharoff presents an overview of the STM/CUJS China Symposium and offers key takeaways, including China’s increasing concern over APCs and Gold OA costs, divergent views on research integrity, and better routes to cooperation.

  • By Nicko Goncharoff
  • Nov 15, 2023
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Quantifying Consolidation in the Scholarly Journals Market

We all know the journals market has rapidly consolidated over recent years. But where’s the data? I set out to find some numbers to put behind the common sense.

  • By David Crotty
  • Oct 30, 2023
  • 26 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Why Are UK Libraries Signing a Springer-Nature Deal They Don’t Seem to Like?

Libraries continue to sign Transformative Agreements while becoming increasingly convinced that they do not represent the desired transformation. Peter Barr explains why this happens.

  • By Peter Barr
  • Jun 22, 2023
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post – Manifesto for a New Read Deal

A.J. Boston offers a route for managing closed access e-serials in a way that finds the best value for libraries, the most content for users, keeps publishers solvent, and experiments on behalf of equity.

  • By A.J. Boston
  • May 18, 2023
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

Is the Library Responsible for Open Access Compliance?

In this moment of success for open access advocacy, Roger C. Schonfeld proposes that the academic library not take responsibility for implementing open access mandates. The first of several scenarios we will consider.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Apr 17, 2023
  • 31 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Retroactively Open: Elsevier Backflips for NERL Agreement

In a novel license agreement, Elsevier agrees to open backfile content from a consortium of elite private institutions. Will other libraries and publishers follow this model?

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Mar 16, 2022
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

IOP Publishing Strikes a Transformative Deal with CRKN: Some Questions for Julian Wilson

An interview with Julian Wilson about IOP Publishing’s new transformative agreement with the Canadian Research Knowledge Network.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Feb 24, 2022
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Expanded Access to Paywalled Content: A Hidden Benefit of Transformative Agreements

What has not made headlines but is also a noteworthy outcome of transformative agreements is the significant increase in access and readership for paywalled articles that they facilitate. 

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Feb 23, 2022
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Paving the Path: Considerations for Transformative Agreements

How do we lay down the layers of “pavement” that build up a quality scholarly communications system that is safe and durable and meets the capacity demands of the scholars of today and, equally importantly, tomorrow? @lisalibrarian

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Dec 8, 2021
  • 11 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Utility, Morality, Strategy, and Scholarly Communication

Should the library focus first on serving its local constituency, or on changing the scholarly communication ecosystem? No matter how we answer this question, the implications will be complex.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • May 21, 2020
  • 15 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Seeking Sustainability: Publishing Models for an Open Access Age

Open access, scholarly publishing, business models, and sustainability. The past is prologue. The present is complex. @lisalibrarian provides SSP a primer.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Apr 7, 2020
  • 12 Comments
  • Time To Read: 12 mins

Measuring the Success of Transformative Agreements

I asked twelve publisher/customer pairs how they will measure the success of their transformative deals five years from now. The responses were very interesting.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Mar 12, 2020
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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