Academic libraries cannot afford to carry on with transformative agreements

Sun, 13 Apr 2025 12:21:53 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

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

"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."

Via Christoph S.

Cheers,
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