(27 Oct 2026) OASE+ (Open Access for Scholarly Empowerment +), a collective negotiating body established with support from the Japanese government to advance the country’s national open access policy, and Elsevier have agreed to a new three-year read-and-publish agreement covering 2027 through 2029. The agreement removes the annual limit on open access articles published in eligible…
(12 Oct 2023) Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources (JUSTICE) and Elsevier have established a transformative agreement in a major step forward in advancing global access to Japan’s scholarly publications through open access publishing. The three-year agreement will take effect from 2024 to 2026. The agreement, the largest of its kind to date…
(9 Jan 2023) Wiley announced remarkable growth of an open access agreement in Japan by increasing from four to 18 participating institutions. Based on the success of the initial agreement by four Japanese institutions in 2022, a new agreement between Wiley and JUSTICE (Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources) allows 14 new universities…
(17 Nov 2022) Oxford University Press (OUP), has today announced a transformative three-year Read and Publish agreement with major journals consortium, the Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources (JUSTICE). Under the agreement, members of the JUSTICE consortium that opt-in will be able to rapidly increase the proportion of articles that they publish open…
(18 Nov 2020) The Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources (JUSTICE) and Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, have signed an agreement on a new three-year proposal for subscription publishing with measures to support Japan’s open access (OA) goals, effective January 1, 2021. This is the first such agreement for Elsevier in Japan…
(27 Jan 2020) Cambridge University Press has reached a transformative Open Access agreement with the Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources (JUSTICE). It is the first such read and publish deal signed with JUSTICE by any publisher, the first major read and publish deal in Japan and a first for the Press in Asia.…