Open Access: OA News & Developments
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OA negotiations with publishers
- ESAC Transformative Agreement Registry"The ESAC Registry collects, aggregates and illustrates essential information on the nature and the mechanisms of the growing body of transformative agreements in their current iterations and as they progress through the transition phase to open access, highlighting key terms and conditions of agreements to better inform institutions (libraries, consortia) and publishers in their negotiations and to improve business standards and market transparency"
- Projeckt DEALThe Project DEAL initiative was commissioned by the Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany, with the aim of concluding nationwide licensing agreements for electronic journals from major academic publishers, such as Elsevier. A proposed "publish and read" deal would make German research output openly accessible.
Paywall: The Business of Scholarship
LIBER's 5 Open Access principles for negotiations with publishers
LIBER, Europe’s leading association of research libraries, has produced five principles for libraries to use when conducting Open Access negotiations with publishers:
- Licensing and Open Access go Hand-in-Hand
- No Open Access, No Price Increase
- Transparency for Licensing Deals: No Non-Disclosure
- Keep Access Sustainable
- Usage Reports Should Include Open Access
Fair Open Access Principles
The Fair Open Access Alliance includes members such as Open Library of Humanities, MathOA, and the Center for Open Science and aims "to help transform the conventions of scholarly publishing, and return control of the publication process to the scholarly community". The Alliance has published a set of Fair Open Access Principles to provide guidance on open access publishing.
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