{"id":4815,"date":"2024-08-21T13:32:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T13:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stm-assoc.org\/?post_type=oa-dashboard&#038;p=4815"},"modified":"2025-10-10T18:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:13:10","slug":"transformative-agreements","status":"publish","type":"oa-dashboard","link":"https:\/\/stm-assoc.org\/oa-dashboard\/oa-dashboard-2\/transformative-agreements\/","title":{"rendered":"Transformative Agreements"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"margin-bottom: -10px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Transformative Agreements<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-44487\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/stm.offloadmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/10001047\/STM-Divider-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"40\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Transformative agreement<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u202fis an umbrella term describing those agreements negotiated between institutions (libraries, national and regional consortia) and publishers to support access to published content as well as the ability of the institutions\u2019 eligible authors to publish gold Open Access. These agreements \u201ctransform\u201d traditional support for subscription publishing to support OA, and hence are termed transformative agreements. They are also often referred to as \u201cread and publish\u201d agreements, as they provide researchers the ability to both read and publish without any transaction cost for the researcher (i.e. eligible authors do not directly pay the\u202f<span class=\"oatooltip\" >Article Publishing Charge (APC)<span class=\"tooltip-text\">A fee to cover the cost of publishing an article and making it open access, within either a fully gold open access journal or hybrid journal, may be charged by a publisher. This fee may be paid by the author, the author\u2019s institution, the research funder or any other sponsoring organisation.<\/span><\/span> \u202fin APC-supported journals).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The rapid growth of transformative agreements across the globe has in turn supported growth in the number of publications made OA. In 2024, transformative agreements supported the OA status of 335,635 publications which accounted for just over one fifth (21%) of gold OA output. It is observable that countries and regions with a high output of OA articles, such as the United Kingdom and Germany make greater use of transformative agreements.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":4799,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-4815","oa-dashboard","type-oa-dashboard","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Transformative Agreements - STM Association<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/stm-assoc.org\/oa-dashboard\/oa-dashboard-2\/transformative-agreements\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Transformative Agreements - STM Association\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Transformative Agreements Transformative agreement\u202fis an umbrella term describing those agreements negotiated between institutions (libraries, national and regional consortia) and publishers to support access to published content as well as the ability of the institutions\u2019 eligible authors to publish gold Open Access. 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