#transformativeagreements — Public Fediverse posts

[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

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

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/

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/

📢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