(9 Jul 2026) Choice announces the publication of “Transformative Agreements, Open Access and Research Impact,” the latest in a series of research reports designed to provide actionable intelligence around topics of importance to the academic library community. Through a collaboration between Wiley and Choice, this survey report examines how academic libraries are navigating the transformative agreements…
(9 Jul 2026) Choice – a publishing unit of the Association of College and Research Libraries – has published a report examining how academic libraries are approaching transformative agreements and open access as part of wider institutional research strategies. The report, Transformative Agreements, Open Access and Research Impact, is the latest in Choice’s series of research…
(11 Mar 2026) “The question of R&P agreements asks whether the ends justify the means. On one hand, R&P agreements and the APC model upon which they are based have significantly increased the overall market share of OA publications over the past 10 years, now up to around 50% of all journal articles published annually (although that trajectory has plateaued over…
(Feb 2026) “Transformative agreements (TAs) are a relatively new type of journal package that typically includes both access to the publisher’s paywalled content and coverage of the open access (OA) publishing fees for an institution’s authors. As many libraries have entered into these agreements in recent years, analyses of their “value” are increasingly being presented…
(4 Jun 2025) Springer Nature and the Higher Education Electronic Resources Consortium (KONSEPt), the Malaysian consortium for higher education and research institutions, have announced the first national transformative agreement (TA) in Malaysia and among Southeast Asia countries. The parties say this agreement demonstrates the increasing momentum across economies of all sizes for open access (OA) publishing,…
(8 Mar 2024) The UK is adapting to open access faster than the global average, but transitional agreements intended to be temporary are at risk of becoming the norm, leaving too much crucial research trapped behind paywalls, according to a Jisc review. The UK sector’s technology body has published its review of transitional agreements (TAs), charting the progress of open access and billed…
(29 Jan 2024) Researchers at Mahidol University in Thailand will be supported to publish open access (OA) journal articles through a new ‘read & publish’ partnership with Taylor & Francis. The three-year deal is Taylor & Francis’ first transformative agreement in Southeast Asia. Corresponding authors at the leading Thai university can now choose to publish…
(Oct 2023) In 2021, the Association of Swedish Higher Education Institutions (Sveriges universitets- ochhögskoleförbund, SUHF) decided to convene a beyond transformative agreements working group(the BTA group) to lay the foundation for further advancing the transition to open access. The group includes researchers, representatives of higher education institutions, funders and negotiators from the Bibsam Consortium. It…
(19 Oct 2023) Springer Nature has agreed a Transformative Agreement (TA) in Hong Kong with all member libraries of the Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee (JULAC). This is the publisher’s first TA in this important region and, with over 700 articles published OA each year, will be the region’s largest TA. With China now leading the…
(9 Aug 2023) The Microbiology Society and National Taiwan University (NTU) are pleased to announce a five year transformative agreement, starting in 2024. The Publish and Read agreement, the first for the Microbiology Society in Taiwan, will allow affiliated researchers to publish an unlimited number of Open Access articles and enjoy full read access in…