As part of the Alliance of Science Organizations’ “Digital Information” priority initiative, the “Recommendations for Transformative Journal Agreements with Providers of Publishing Service” have now been published. 

These formulated criteria will serve as a common, action-guiding framework for actors from all science organizations — that is, higher education institutions as well as non-university research institutions — for negotiations with providers of publishing services. The call for the greatest possible cost transparency and cost efficiency in the system as a whole forms the core of the actions of the science organizations in the context of their Open Access Strategy 2021–2025.

The criteria are organized into the following aspects: journal transformation, pricing; transparency, workflow, preprints, metadata and interfaces, statistics, tracking, and waivers.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.48440/allianzoa.046