#transformativeagreements — Public Fediverse posts

"Scholarly Publishing Won’t Be Saved by Incremental Change"
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/scholarly-publishing-wont-be-saved-incremental-change
"We’re stuck in a moribund scholarly publishing ecosystem. Acts of refusal by academic researchers and faculty may be our only way out."
#publishing #openaccess #transformativeagreements

Depuis 15 ans, les #TransformativeAgreements peinent à remplir leur objectif (accompagner l'ouverture des #RevuesScientifiques).
Si bien qu'un certain nombre d'institutions choisissent de ne pas poursuivre leur #AccordTransformant
#OpenAccess

➡️ https://openscience.pasteur.fr/2025/03/19/les-accords-transformants-clap-de-fin/

[Veille] "1000-up for The Company of Biologists’ Read & Publish initiative"
(21 February 2025) => https://www.researchinformation.info/news/1000-up-for-the-company-of-biologists-read-publish-initiative/
#openaccess #transformativeagreements #ReadandPublish #openscience #biology

"All our Authors: Open Access Publishing Agreements and Academic Research Library Websites in the United States" https://doi.org/10.21428/1bfadeb6.e94139ca #OpenAccess #Verlagsverträge #TransformativeAgreements #Bibliotheken #USA #Information

"Assessing Opt-In Rates for Transformative Agreements" https://doi.org/10.5860/lrts.69n1.8184
#OpenAccess #APCs #TransformativeAgreements

...2/2 "Cette situation confère aux maisons d'édition traditionnelles (qui ne sont pas en libre accès) un pouvoir sur le marché considérable. Il élève les barrières à l'entrée, réduit la concurrence et augmente les coûts pour les bibliothèques et les universités"
Mais QUAND va-t-on cesser cette folie des accords "transformants" ???!!🤯
#openaccess #oaweek #transformativeagreements #openscience #publishers #hydridesjournals #APCs #articleprocessingcharges

...2/2 "Cette situation confère aux maisons d'édition traditionnelles (qui ne sont pas en libre accès) un pouvoir sur le marché considérable. Il élève les barrières à l'entrée, réduit la concurrence et augmente les coûts pour les bibliothèques et les universités"
Mais QUAND va-t-on cesser cette folie des accords "transformants" ???!!🤯
#openaccess #oaweek #transformativeagreements #openscience #publishers #hydridesjournals #APCs #articleprocessingcharges

...2/2 "Cette situation confère aux maisons d'édition traditionnelles (qui ne sont pas en libre accès) un pouvoir sur le marché considérable. Il élève les barrières à l'entrée, réduit la concurrence et augmente les coûts pour les bibliothèques et les universités"
Mais QUAND va-t-on cesser cette folie des accords "transformants" ???!!🤯
#openaccess #oaweek #transformativeagreements #openscience #publishers #hydridesjournals #APCs #articleprocessingcharges

...2/2 "Cette situation confère aux maisons d'édition traditionnelles (qui ne sont pas en libre accès) un pouvoir sur le marché considérable. Il élève les barrières à l'entrée, réduit la concurrence et augmente les coûts pour les bibliothèques et les universités"
Mais QUAND va-t-on cesser cette folie des accords "transformants" ???!!🤯
#openaccess #oaweek #transformativeagreements #openscience #publishers #hydridesjournals #APCs #articleprocessingcharges

...2/2 "Cette situation confère aux maisons d'édition traditionnelles (qui ne sont pas en libre accès) un pouvoir sur le marché considérable. Il élève les barrières à l'entrée, réduit la concurrence et augmente les coûts pour les bibliothèques et les universités"
Mais QUAND va-t-on cesser cette folie des accords "transformants" ???!!🤯
#openaccess #oaweek #transformativeagreements #openscience #publishers #hydridesjournals #APCs #articleprocessingcharges

New study: "Research institutions seem to be 'trapped' in #TransformativeAgreements. Instead of being a bridge towards a fully #OpenAccess world, academia is stuck in the #hybrid system."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.20224

PS: This confirms the #BOAI20 diagnosis (March 2022): "Paying #APCs at hybrid journals pays the journals to stay hybrid. It pays them to resist the conversion to full OA that many institutions intend and predict when they enter the agreements."
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

#ReadAndPublish

New preprint on #TransformativeAgreements for #openaccess

Rothfritz, L., Schmal, W. B., & Herb, U. (2024). Trapped in Transformative Agreements? A Multifaceted Analysis of >1,000 Contracts. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2409.20224

For this paper, @scinoptica, Benedikt Schmal and I scraped the ESAC Database of #TransformativeAgreements and were able to analyse all available information on more than 1,000 TAs. Unsurprisingly, our findings show that TAs are reinforcing the dominance of large publishers.

1. L’origine dei contratti “trasformativi”
L’idea dei contratti chiamati “trasformativi” fu proposta da Ralf Schimmer, nel 2015 ancora alla Max Planck Digital Library, con l’intento esplicito di trasformare il minimo indispensabile.

Many who advocate open access envisage the development of a new publishing environment—new […]

https://aisa.sp.unipi.it/lucus-a-non-lucendo-perche-boicottare-i-contratti-trasformativi/

1. L’origine dei contratti “trasformativi”
L’idea dei contratti chiamati “trasformativi” fu proposta da Ralf Schimmer, nel 2015 ancora alla Max Planck Digital Library, con l’intento esplicito di trasformare il minimo indispensabile.

Many who advocate open access envisage the development of a new publishing environment—new […]

https://aisa.sp.unipi.it/lucus-a-non-lucendo-perche-boicottare-i-contratti-trasformativi/

1. L’origine dei contratti “trasformativi”
L’idea dei contratti chiamati “trasformativi” fu proposta da Ralf Schimmer, nel 2015 ancora alla Max Planck Digital Library, con l’intento esplicito di trasformare il minimo indispensabile.

Many who advocate open access envisage the development of a new publishing environment—new […]

https://aisa.sp.unipi.it/lucus-a-non-lucendo-perche-boicottare-i-contratti-trasformativi/

1. L’origine dei contratti “trasformativi”
L’idea dei contratti chiamati “trasformativi” fu proposta da Ralf Schimmer, nel 2015 ancora alla Max Planck Digital Library, con l’intento esplicito di trasformare il minimo indispensabile.

Many who advocate open access envisage the development of a new publishing environment—new […]

https://aisa.sp.unipi.it/lucus-a-non-lucendo-perche-boicottare-i-contratti-trasformativi/

1. L’origine dei contratti “trasformativi”
L’idea dei contratti chiamati “trasformativi” fu proposta da Ralf Schimmer, nel 2015 ancora alla Max Planck Digital Library, con l’intento esplicito di trasformare il minimo indispensabile.

Many who advocate open access envisage the development of a new publishing environment—new […]

https://aisa.sp.unipi.it/lucus-a-non-lucendo-perche-boicottare-i-contratti-trasformativi/

"Are Transformative Agreements Worth It? An Analysis of Open Access Publication Data at the University of Kentucky" https://doi.org/10.5860/lrts.68n1.8211
#OpenAccess #InstitutionalAgreements #TransformativeAgreements #PublisherAgreements #PublicationData

LA CRUI, associazione privata dei rettori italiani, offre alle università un servizio non gratuito, noto come CRUI-CARE, per la negoziazione di contratti consortili con gli editori scientifici commerciali.
Dal 2020 CRUI-CARE ha cominciato a stipulare una serie di contratti in virtù dei quali gli editori sono pagati non solo per leggere, cioè […]

https://aisa.sp.unipi.it/contratti-trasformativi-una-lettera-aperta-alla-crui/

Publish-and-read contracts (PAR) "contracts are likely to raise entry barriers for new (open-access) competitors even further. Intending to lower costs for the universities, their libraries, and, ultimately, the taxpayers, this PAR fee contract design of transformative agreements might cause the opposite."
Very interesting paper by Wolfgang Benedikt Schmal on #OpenAccess #OA #TransformativeAgreements
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03597

Choice of Open Access in Elsevier Hybrid Journals

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2024/03/05/choice-of-open-access-in-elsevier-hybrid-journals/

#ArticleprocessingCharges #Elsevier #HybridOpenAccess #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #ScholarlyJournals #ScholarlyPublishing #SumikoAsai #TransformativeAgreements

"The Challenge with Transformative Agreements and Society Journals" by Michael Clarke: https://www.ce-strategy.com/2023/11/the-challenge-with-transformative-agreements-and-society-journals/
#openaccess #journals #publishers #societies #transformativeagreements #publishingservicesagreements

https://bjoern.brembs.net/2023/09/no-evilsevier-deal/

📢New search features on the Journal Checker Tool (#JCT) provide users with the ability to search across all the ESAC-registered #TransformativeAgreements.
More: https://coalition-s.org/blog/introducing-new-search-features-in-the-journal-checker-tool-for-transformative-agreements/ ✍️by @robertkiley

#OpenAccess #JournalCheckerTool #JournalComparisonService
#ESACInitiative

📢New search features on the Journal Checker Tool (#JCT) provide users with the ability to search across all the ESAC-registered #TransformativeAgreements.
More: https://coalition-s.org/blog/introducing-new-search-features-in-the-journal-checker-tool-for-transformative-agreements/ ✍️by @robertkiley

#OpenAccess #JournalCheckerTool #JournalComparisonService
#ESACInitiative

📢New search features on the Journal Checker Tool (#JCT) provide users with the ability to search across all the ESAC-registered #TransformativeAgreements.
More: https://coalition-s.org/blog/introducing-new-search-features-in-the-journal-checker-tool-for-transformative-agreements/ ✍️by @robertkiley

#OpenAccess #JournalCheckerTool #JournalComparisonService
#ESACInitiative

📢New search features on the Journal Checker Tool (#JCT) provide users with the ability to search across all the ESAC-registered #TransformativeAgreements.
More: https://coalition-s.org/blog/introducing-new-search-features-in-the-journal-checker-tool-for-transformative-agreements/ ✍️by @robertkiley

#OpenAccess #JournalCheckerTool #JournalComparisonService
#ESACInitiative

"Transormative Agreements: Communicating Next Phase of Library Collections" https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/2023/isr/4/ [IATUL 2023 talk slides] #openaccess #transformativeagreements

Please share with me great examples of how #libraries convey to their users which #journals are available to them as authors for no-APC #OpenAccess via read and publish deals or #TransformativeAgreements.

Nb I'm not interested in webpages saying which *publishers* are covered. Let's be user-centered; authors care about which *journals* they can publish in for free.

#medlibs #Scholcomn #AcademicChatter #Publishing

Cambridge University Press Aims for Full Open Access by 2025

👉 "#TransformativeAgreements are made between #publishers and institutions such as #libraries and #universities to “transform” how content is paid for, specifically transitioning from subscription-based business models to open access."

https://publishingperspectives.com/2023/02/cambridge-university-press-aims-for-full-open-access-by-2025/

#publishing #research #OA cc @Bernardpo

OK, now I have read
Machovec, G. (2020). Selected Tools and Services for Analyzing and Managing Open Access Journal #TransformativeAgreements. Journal of Library Administration, 60(3), 301–307. https://doi.org/10.1080/01930826.2020.1727280

And the tools they discuss are designed for library staff to negotiate, manage, and evaluate. Very little about "managing" TAs in the sense of implementing them through marketing or user outreach.

Question for #scholcomm #librarians #library whose institutions have #TransformativeAgreements

How do you communicate to your institutions' authors which journals are covered in the agreements?

It's easy with PLOS because they have the publisher in the journal name. But how is an author supposed to know that the journal Public Health Nutrition is covered by our read-and-publish deal with Cambridge University Press?

Surely people have already solved this communication problem 😜

@Doug_Bostrom If you believe that the current journal ecosystem is good but that we need to move to #OpenAccess tout suite then #TransformativeAgreements make a lot of sense - most libraries (or their consortia) are already negotiating big deals and TAs are just bigger big deals... Also, researchers can continue publishing in their favourite high prestige journals and seamlessly meet their funder requirements... It's a pretty elegant solution if you think the journal system we have is good...