We are increasingly learning about read and publish agreements between publishers and libraries (also called transformative agreements).  This article provides a useful introduction.  These support the Library’s strategic aims for increasing open access to resources.  We have recently signed up to 3 new Read and Publish agreements with the following:

• CSIRO – a pilot agreement allowing us to publish in 8 CSIRO journals as well as read access to CSIRO journals we don’t currently subscribe to [agreement details]
• Royal Society – access to and unlimited publishing to all 10 Royal Society journals [agreement details]
• PLOS (PLOS Medicine and PLOS Biology) – another pilot agreement [FAQ and agreement details]

These join the Microbiology Society agreement set up early last year.  The CSIRO and Royal Society agreements were submitted in response to CAUL’s Fast Track to Open Access initiative.

Promotional material and other resources are available here.

It is early days in our experience with Read and Publish agreements and we are all learning.  Stuart and Sara will be working with their teams to promote these and given UC is being listed as a participating member (example) we could well get some comments and questions any time now from our community about these agreements and transformative agreements in general (recent example).