Standard Contracts
Publish and Read Agreement SURF and KargerPublish and Read Agreement • January 31st, 2022
SURF B.V., a private limited company with its registered office at Moreelsepark 48, Utrecht, The Netherlands, duly represented in this by its COO, and referred to hereinafter as “SURF”;
SpringerNature (Projekt DEAL)Publish and Read Agreement • December 12th, 2023
Olivia Karin Diehr Christian HeenePublish and Read Agreement • September 26th, 2022
The Projekt DEAL is a consortium of German libraries, universities, and research institutions which started negotiations with the publisher Elsevier in 2016. DEAL wants to set up nationwide “publish and read” agreements with publishers. By paying a lump sum to cover publication costs, all papers authored by researchers from German institutions would be published open access. This new payment model would certainly have a global impact. Besides Elsevier, there are ongoing negotiations with the publishers SpringerNature and Wiley. We will explain the recent developments and open access initiatives, and discuss whether DEAL could be a model for other IAMSLIC libraries.
