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The Transformative Agreements are part of the changes that Open Science implies for the development of scientific research. The traditional model of subscription and access to the contents of academic journals has been replaced by a model in which publishers include in our subscription the APC (Article Processing Charge) necessary to publish articles in Open Access.
The Universitat de València has signed transformative agreements within the framework of the CRUE-CSIC agreements with the major scientific publishers. The first agreements were signed at the beginning of 2021, and since then the Servei de Biblioteques i Documentació has focused its efforts on disseminating the agreements among research staff and achieving Open Access publication, saving costs for the institution. This work has led to the publication of 331 articles in open access during the year 2021.
Researchers at the Universitat de València have consumed all the APCs offered by Elsevier, ACS, Cambridge and IEEE, and a high percentage of those offered by Springer and Wiley, which has meant a saving of approximately 900,000 euros. To this end, library staff have monitored the publications and contacted the corresponding authors to inform them of the procedure for making their articles open access.
The subject areas in which our researchers have published have been Life Sciences and Biomedicine and Physical Sciences, as well as Social Sciences, Technology and Arts and Humanities to a lesser extent.
The full report, with the data by publisher and the list of articles, as well as the analysis of the data by subject area or gender perspective, can be consulted here. The transformative agreements will continue until 2024 and from the Servei de Biblioteques i Documentació we will work so that the information reaches our researchers and helps them to publish in open access and increase the percentage of open access publication.
By 2022 the Servei de Biblioteques i Documentació can fund up to 479 open access articles for the publishers Wiley, Elsevier, Springer and ACS, in addition to all those published in Cambridge University Press.
