Report on Transformative Journal Contracts with Publication Service Providers Published

Transform2Open furthers the development and internationalization of the Alliance's Recommendations for Transformative Journal Contracts with Publication Service Providers into an internationally applicable catalog of criteria. The recommendations had originally been developed as part of the Open Access Strategy of the Alliance of German Science Organizations.

To prepare this planned further development, Transform2Open hosted an online workshop on October 16, 2023, inviting GASCO members from German institutions, members of the Forum 13+ working group, research funders (German Research Foundation) and the authors of the Alliance paper. Together, challenges in implementation the recommendations, potentially missing aspects as well as existing best practices were identified; in addition, valuable ideas and processes for the further development of the recommendations were discussed. A report (in German) documents the event: 

Meistring, M., Bertelmann, R., Ferguson, L. M., Pampel, H., Barbers, I., Höhnow, T., Kostädt, P., Mittermaier, B., Schön, M. & Shelly, J. (2023). Report: Transform2Open Workshop "Empfehlungen für transformative Zeitschriftenverträge mit Publikationsdienstleistern". Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10379825 

The findings will then be presented to the Alliance of German Science Organizations for the further development of the recommendations.