We'll have lots of time for questions and discussion - so please do post thoughts in the chat. Thank you!

Invaluable resource - https://esac-initiative.org/about/transformative-agreements/agreement-registry/

If your library has signed a transformative agreement with a publisher, we encourage you to enter the agreement in the Registry! https://esac-initiative.org/about/transformative-agreements/share/

How can we know that our library has signed a transformative agreement with a publisher?

Agreements will typically be made by the same folks in your library that negotiate your subscription agreements. So checking in with your collections/acquisitions folks might be a good place to start.

Thank you very much.

It'd be good to hear about work you have done to ensure very small scholar-led and resource-light publishers are able to participate using the template and manage to share all of the information required. Ensuring that this initiative embraces them rather than creates a hoop to jump through.

We see with some small publishers that it's a challenge to partake in various initiatives that are seen as badges of quality publishing. Happy to help if any questions need asking.

Really glad Celeste is flagging the “diversity” challenge/opportunity.

A small publisher will struggle to build something unique for each library and vice versa… certainly been the PLOS experience.

You can download the example licence agreements and addendum from here: https://www.informationpower.co.uk/enabling-smaller-independent-publishers-oa-agreements/#2-principles-for-open-access-agreements-with-smaller-independent-publishers

This is the link to the tool kit https://www.alpsp.org/write/MediaUploads/OA%20Agreements/SPA_OPS_3.0_Data_Template___final.xlsx

Yes - will do and agreed!

We need a lovely infographic for the data template - this is a work in progress!

Please don't be shy! Either unmute and contribute, or post a comment here. :-)

Yes, please unmute to ask a question or add your questions to the chat.

Do the Open Access platform evaluate journals' impact factors in their field?

For here at the University of North Texas, we have a list of publishers offering discounts to UNT-affiliated authors on this page: https://guides.library.unt.edu/open-access/publish (it's about 2/3 of the way down the page)

Thanks Kevin

Could Judy please post the link to the UF guide in chat? Thanks.

Similar at Iowa State, we have a table that shows our agreements. Though we may need to revise this approach as we continue to add more OA agreements https://open.lib.iastate.edu/open-access/agreements

Thanks Celeste. I'm interested in whether any data required is problematic for very small publications. I'll contact you after.

UMass Amherst Libraries list of open scholarship investments is here: https://guides.library.umass.edu/ScholarlyPublishing/FundingModels#s-lg-box-27462334

(comment only)CRKN was very excited to see this toolkit released! We've recently developed a publication data report because we received different data reports from publishers and wanted the data to be comparable across publishers (both to inform negotiations and to share back with members to support their decisions). We're now using the template as the starting point for our data requests!And we were delighted to see that ours largely aligns with the data template here; it will help support our requests to be in on the 'recommended reporting' ;) - we'll be reviewing side by side a bit more to see how ours could be enhanced, but thank you for the hard work!

Terrific stuff!

The Max Planck Digital Library maintains a database of journal titles for which fees for open access publishing are covered centrally by our library: https://oapublishing.mpdl.mpg.de/journals/

https://www.coalition-s.org/coalition-s-starts-building-its-journal-comparison-service/

University of British Columbia maintains a public site as well: https://scholcomm.ubc.ca/open-access-publisher-discounts/ -- but this toolkit work is fantastic and i'll share it with colleagues as well! We also maintain an internal rubric for evaluating new agreements, and I know we could include more from this there as well

UF Libguide: https://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/openaccess/ufinvests

Brilliant - thank you all for sharing your links!

Thank you for the information about the journal comparison service. I'll be interested to see how "service" relates to "quality" of published material.

Amen, Miguel!

Alicia is very good at “gentle and provocative” 👏🏽

At UF, we have also developed a rubric to evaluate potential agreements and have found the toolkit will complement that by providing data that informs our more qualitative criteria.

This is a bit tangential, but relevant to libraries wishing to invest in small and /or APC-free journals. In an OA Switchboard webinar last week, Wendy Patterson of the Beilstein-Institut explained that libraries being able to see which journals their researchers are choosing to publish in (via the Switchboard) could become a valuable data source for librarians in choosing where to invest. Is there any scope for similar discovery with this initiative? Evidence based spending....

Also quite a few libs are issuing negotiation principles that are really helpful. MIT’s really helped PLOS in our negotiation: https://libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/publishing/framework/

UMass Amherst has a Framework for Provider Agreements - https://www.library.umass.edu/about-the-libraries/framework-for-provider-agreements/ - and I’m happy to see the Toolkit has a similar list of principles.

Bernie - I think the Journal Comparison Service will be very complementary with the OA Switchboard. cOAlition S certainly aim to make it so!

Yes, OA Switchboard important initiative…

They are invaluable to us, these rubrics!!

Very interesting. Many thanks.

Thank you so much for all the work everyone put into the models and templates – as an independent publisher it’s really heartening to see this sort of collaboration coming together in such actionable ways for libraries and publishers alike – onwards and upwards!

Great session — thank you all who have worked on this!

Thank you!!

thank you one and all

Thank you very much.