Scholarly Communication for Librarians: Open Access And Transformative Agreements

This site provides information on ECU Libraries' open access agreements and open access fund. It also includes information for researchers on making their working open access. ECU Libraries has included guiding values related to their sustainable scholarship work.

The OAPSF is available for ECU researchers to help offset the costs of open access publishing. The application and guidelines for the fund are included on this page.

Published by SPARC, this link includes questions to ask when considering investments in open access agreements.

An ASERL webinar the discusses trends and perspectives on transformative agreements.

A guide, published by ESAC, that guides libraries through negotiating transformative agreements. The site includes guidance related to preparation, negotiation, and implementation of these agreements.

An international registry of transformative agreements including information on organizations, libraries, and publishers.