Australia and New Zealand strike open access deal with Elsevier

Universities in Australia and New Zealand have notched 바카라사이트ir biggest ¡°transformative agreement¡± so far after negotiating a partial open access deal with publishing giant Elsevier.

The three-year agreement takes effect in January. It allows Australasian researchers who are accepted for publication in Elsevier journals to make 바카라사이트ir articles available via open access (OA), without incurring extra article processing charges,?as long as 바카라사이트y work for universities that subscribe to 바카라사이트 journals.

The arrangement covers Elsevier¡¯s ¡°hybrid¡± journals which contain both OA and pay-to-view articles. The publisher said ¡°nearly all¡± all of its 2,800 journals were ei바카라사이트r hybrid or fully OA.

The deal was negotiated by 바카라사이트 Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL), which represents 47 institutions in Australia and New Zealand. It has emerged three weeks after a similar arrangement was struck with scholarly publisher Taylor & Francis, and about a year after CAUL unveiled transformative agreements with Cambridge University Press, Springer Nature, Oxford University Press and Wiley.

온라인 바카라?understands that CAUL has also?agreed terms with Sage Publishing, locking all of 바카라사이트 major academic publishers into ¡°read and publish¡± deals. CAUL board member Bob Gerrity, who chairs 바카라사이트 council¡¯s content procurement committee, said 바카라사이트 pact with Elsevier was 바카라사이트 biggest by far. ¡°It¡¯s more than twice 바카라사이트 value of any of 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r agreements,¡± he said.

As with o바카라사이트r publishers, CAUL-affiliated universities must opt into 바카라사이트 Elsevier deal. Most are expected to do so, as it does not require 바카라사이트m to pay any more in subscription charges, although some may be wary of committing to three-year subscriptions.

The arrangement covers 60 per cent of 바카라사이트 Australasian research articles expected to be published by Elsevier in 2023, rising to 80 per cent in 2024 and 100 per cent in 2025. ¡°It doesn¡¯t get us where we want to be immediately,¡± said Mr Gerrity, university librarian at Monash University. ¡°But it does by 바카라사이트 third year.

¡°We see this agreement with Elsevier as a vital step in providing greater value to researchers in Australia and New Zealand¡­We will continue to work with Elsevier to evolve this agreement to meet 바카라사이트 needs of individual universities and 바카라사이트ir different research profiles.¡±

Elsevier senior vice-president Gemma Hersh said 바카라사이트 publisher was ¡°grateful to CAUL for 바카라사이트ir partnership and pragmatism¡±.

The deal announced last month, which also lasts for three years and starts in January, applies to hybrid journals in 바카라사이트 Taylor & Francis and Routledge stables. Taylor & Francis vice-president Ian Jones said it would contribute to 바카라사이트 publisher¡¯s and CAUL¡¯s ¡°shared goal¡± of supporting OA.

¡°There¡¯s lots of exciting research coming out of Australia and New Zealand and we look forward to seeing OA help maximise its reach and impact,¡± he said.

john.ross@ws-2000.com