Open Access Licences and Open Metadata in Transformative Agreements

2026/05/14 by Sophia Dörner · 1 voice
Business, Management and Accounting · Computer Science · Decision Sciences · #Academic Publishing and Open Access #Optics and Image Analysis #Research Data Management Practices

paper · doi:10.59350/nv30b-3yg69

openalex publication_date 2026/05/14 · openalex created_date 2026/05/16 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/14

Abstract

<ns4:p>Introduction Over the past decade, transformative agreements have been instrumental in driving the transition to open access by redirecting former subscription costs to fund open access publishing for affiliated authors of the negotiating institutions (de Jonge et al. 2025;</ns4:p>

Citations

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Discussions

• Do publishers deliver the metadata they promise in transformative agreements? Our colleague Sophia Dörner @ subugoe analyzed @ crossref metadata for journal articles covered by transformative agreemen [mastodon, 3 points, 0 comments]

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