ACM and Purdue University sign new ACM OPEN "Read and Publish" License (9 February 2021)
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and Tulane University have entered into a transformative Read and Publish agreement. The agreement lasts throughout 2021. (4 February 2021)
BMJ has signed transitional agreements with Bibsam Consortium in Sweden, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek for German Academic Institutions, and Jisc in the UK which will provide researchers the opportunity to publish all of their research articles open access in BMJ’s hybrid Standard Collection journals; while providing full access to read the BMJ’s journal collection. (5 February 2021)
Cambridge University Press has signed a 3 year Read and Publish agreement with the Milner Library/Illinois State University (9 February 2021)
Oxford University Press (OUP) and FinELib have reached a three year agreement for Read & Publish access to OUP’s journals collection. (5 February 2021)
Portland Press/Biochemical Society and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), also known as the Spanish National Research Council,have signed a Read & Publish transformative deal. Corresponding authors at CSIC institutions will receive unlimited open access (OA) publishing across the entire journal portfolio.
SAGE Publishing and the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries have signed a transformative deal The deal, which began on January 1, 2021 and will last through 2022, provides researchers with unlimited open access publishing rights in SAGE’s 900+ hybrid journals and a discount on article publishing charges for SAGE’s 150+ pure Gold Open Access journals. (5 February 2021). A similar deal has been signed with German Academic Institutions (11 February 2021)
Springer Nature has signed a transformative agreement with CRUI-CARE (Conferenza dei Rettori delle Universita Italiane), the association of Italian state and non-state universities which acts on behalf of over 90 Italian academic and research institutions. (12 February 2021)