Tuesday, October 20, 2020 - 14:00 to 14:30
Online
Library Talk - Jack Hyland (IRel Manager)/Hugh Murphy (Head of Collections and Content, MU Library) Open Access Publisher Agreements in MU.
Since 2020, Ireland has joined other countries in signing so called “transformative agreements” with academic publishers, allowing researchers to make their articles OA immediately on publication, without author-facing charges. How do these agreements work and why are institutions increasingly favouring them as drivers of open access? Will they succeed in making OA the default model for research publications? If so, at what cost? In this talk, we will answer these questions and provide an overview of OA agreements in MU and Ireland to date.