From: Kai Karin Geschuhn <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 11:02:57 +0000
+++Apologies for cross posting - Happy Open Access Week!+++
Dear Colleagues,
As anticipated at the *ICOLC* meeting in London and the *OA2020
Transformation Lab* in Prague, I am very pleased to announce the re-launch
of the *ESAC Initiative* and website (http://esac-initiative.org/) with a
number of extremely valuable crowd-sourced tools and resources related to
transitional license models (ie *Offsetting*, *Read & Publish*, etc.). With
more and more library consortia and individual institutions now
incorporating transformative agreements into their open access strategies,
in alignment with the mission of the Open Access 2020 Initiative
<https://oa2020.org/>, many have expressed the urgent need for more
information-sharing on the transformative mechanisms and practical aspects of
these kinds of agreements.
While ESAC was originally established to develop library-driven (and *not*
*publisher-driven*) standards and workflows for the growing open access
publishing market, which is based on article-level charges rather than
journal-level or package-level fees, ESAC has now expanded its focus to
fill a vital role in the open access landscape, offering a place for
institutions to share best practice, lessons learned and recommendations
related to transformative agreements to increase the understanding of their
scope and power to effect large-scale and lasting change in scholarly
publishing. Areas of focus for ESAC now include data gathering,
visualization and information sharing as a basis for negotiation strategy;
license models, terms and publisher compliance; as well as open access
publishing cost monitoring and control.
Some of the resources now online include:
*OA Market Watch *
ESAC is now aggregating data and relevant information on a number of the
largest subscription publishers to help the community understand their
current position in the scholarly publishing market and better assess their
performance in transitioning from a subscription-based publishing model to
open access.
*Publisher Fact Sheets*
For institutions and consortia who are just beginning to create a licensing
strategy to accelerate the transition to open access and for those who are
already negotiating transformative agreements, ESAC’s Publisher Fact Sheets
provide a summary of the characteristics, performance and lessons learned
from the agreements negotiated with some of the largest subscription
publishers. The Publisher Fact Sheet relative to Springer Nature is now
online!
*ESAC Resources*
The ESAC website has also been augmented with a section featuring resources
relative to transformative agreements such as terms and workflow
checklists, an online tool for sharing information and best practice, and,
coming soon, recommendations from the ESAC Data Working Group on gathering
and analysing different kinds of publication data in order to formulate a
negotiation strategy.
By sharing the knowledge gained as we take steps to remove our financial
support of the paywall system, converting our subscription budgets into
funds to support open access publishing, our individual efforts will all be
more successful and, collectively, more impactful. If you are negotiating
transformative agreements and have data and information to share to make
the ESAC tools more comprehensive and effective, please share
http://esac-initiative.org/share/.
ESAC is coordinated by the Max Planck Digital Library on behalf of and in
collaboration with the global academic and research library community.
Please explore http://esac-initiative.org and, if you have any questions,
would like more information, or want to get involved, please sign up for
our listserv
https://listsrv.mpdl.mpg.de/mailman/listinfo/esac-offsetting-list or
contact me directly.
Happy Open Access Week!
Kai Geschuhn
Ms. Kai Karin Geschuhn
Innovative Services & Open Access
Max Planck Digital Library
Amalienstraße 33 | 80799 München
Phone +49 (0) 89 38602 253
Fax +49 (0) 89 38602 290
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