Will Transformative Agreements Unravel Library Consortia? - The Scholarly Kitchen

peter.suber's bookmarks 2019-05-22

Summary:

"Over the past few months we’ve seen increased attention to consortial efforts to reach transformative agreements with publishers. Some recent successes include DEAL/Germany with Wiley, University of California with Cambridge University Press, Springer Nature with Jisc/UK, and Elsevier with UNIT/Norway. It is clear that many library consortia are prioritizing open access publishing in their publisher contracts, which they have stated clearly must be cost neutral or at least cost controlling overall.

Underneath the importance of cost control in the aggregate lies an extremely important question — how is the cost of a transformative agreement distributed within a library consortium among its members? I observe today that cost share distribution within consortia is a substantial risk to the ability of transformative agreements to take hold for the long term and may threaten the cohesion of consortia as well...."

Link:

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2019/05/20/transformative-agreements-unravel-library-consortia/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.libraries oa.consortia oa.offsets oa.conversions oa.agreements oa.risks

Date tagged:

05/22/2019, 17:36

Date published:

05/22/2019, 13:36