Another Week, Another Transformative Open Access Agreement. But Just How Transformative are They Proving to be in Practice?

Abstract

Transformative agreements offer a new route to increase Open Access (OA) participation and publishing. The presentation offers perspectives from two libraries and a publisher on transformative agreements and the steps they took to increase OA publishing. They address challenges and benefits to setting up a transformative agreement, including establishing comparative data, incorporating multiple funding streams to pay article processing charges (APCs), educating authors on OA options, encouraging publishers to offer multiple OA options to libraries, and maintaining sustainable processes, workload, and costs.