Transformative Agreements; Twisting Open Access | American Library Association | On-Demand Webinar

"Transformative Agreements are large academic publishers’ latest model for increasing revenue and exploiting the Open Access movement. Open Access started as an initiative of university and non-profit publishers to bypass for-profit behemoths and provide free academic research to the world. These agreements impact which scholars, institutions and regions have the ability to publish with large academic publishing companies. They demand that institutions no longer subscribe for access but subscribe to publish. This webinar provides a very brief overview of how we got here, how publishers benefit from Transformative Agreements through a business lens, who is talking about this (and who should be) and what librarians can do about it...."