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Academic libraries cannot afford to carry on with transformative agreements | Impact of Social Sciences

peter.suber's bookmarks 2025-03-31

Summary:

The funding crisis in UK higher education is forcing academic libraries to make difficult financial decisions. Caroline Edwards argues agreements with commercial publishers now represent an unreasonable expense and introduces the Open Journals Collective as an alternative model for scaling open access to journal publications.

 

Link:

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/03/31/academic-libraries-cannot-afford-to-carry-on-with-transformative-agreements/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.publishing oa.business_models oa.libraries oa.journals oa.open_journals_collective oa.ojc oa.open_library_humanities oa.offsets oa.budgets oa.economics_of oa.big_deals oa.cancellations oa.academic_led oa.sustainability oa.dei oa.universities oa.humanities oa.no-fee oa.memberships oa.nonprofit oa.ssh

Date tagged:

03/31/2025, 05:42

Date published:

03/31/2025, 04:59