Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A national consortium signs a 3-year R&P deal with a major publisher giving CC BY OA to all corresponding-author articles.
- Is an instance
An institution publishes its R&P cost-and-volume data annually.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
Paying APCs separately on top of an R&P deal because of complex eligibility rules.
- Not an instance
An R&P deal with no published cost transparency or article cap reporting.
Editorial commentary
Read-and-Publish (R&P) is one form of transformative agreement. Under R&P, the institution pays a single combined fee covering both subscription access to all (or most) of the publisher's journals and unlimited (or capped) open-access publication by its authors. R&P agreements are typically multi-year, negotiated by national consortia (e.g., Jisc in the UK, Couperin in France, Bibsam in Sweden), and intended to shift publisher revenue gradually from subscriptions to OA publication. They are accepted as Plan S compliant when meeting transformative-arrangement criteria. Critics note that R&P can entrench existing publisher market shares and that pricing transparency is uneven.
References
- ESAC Initiative (esac-initiative.org) registry of transformative agreements. Jisc R&P framework.
Also known as
R&P agreement · Read & Publish deal
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