WP 2 Publisher Agreements

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Description

OA transformation agreements are heterogeneous in terms of open metadata despite standardisation initiatives such as ESAC (Borrego et al., 2021; Jahn et al., 2022; Marques et al., 2019). At the same time, publishers offer varying degrees of metadata and research services in addition to the OA provision of articles and centralised accounting. The aim of the WP is to analyse publisher agreements relating to open metadata and data-analytical research services and to identify best practices. This is intended to promote competition between publishers.

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References

Borrego, Á., Anglada, L., & Abadal, E. (2021). Transformative agreements: Do they pave the way to open access? Learned Publishing, 34(2), 216–232. https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1347
Jahn, N., Matthias, L., & Laakso, M. (2022). Toward transparency of hybrid open access through publisher‐provided metadata: An article‐level study of elsevier. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 73(1), 104–118. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24549
Marques, M., Woutersen-Windhouwer, S., & Tuuliniemi, A. (2019). Monitoring agreements with open access elements: Why article-level metadata are important. Insights the UKSG Journal, 32. https://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.489