Journal Article: “Implementation of Transformative Agreements at the University of Chicago Library: A Case Study”

The article linked below (full text) was recently published by the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication.

Title

Implementation of Transformative Agreements at the University of Chicago Library: A Case Study

Authors

Jessica Harris
University of Chicago Library

Greg Fleming
University of Chicago Library

Jennifer Hart
University of Chicago Library

Adrian K. Ho
University of Chicago Library

Barbara Kern
Queen’s University

Catherine Mardikes
University of Chicago Library

Debra A. Werner
University of Chicago Library

Source

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 13,1 (2025), eP18265.

DOI: 10.31274/jlsc.18265

Abstract

The University of Chicago Library created a working group, composed of librarians across the library, to engage in dedicated and focused work around transformative agreements, including understanding how they work and how the library should be engaging with them in a complex open access (OA) landscape. The working group was charged with specific tasks, including determining challenges and opportunities around transformative agreements, developing criteria for determining when to use the library’s OA fund to pursue an agreement, conducting ongoing assessments of the agreements, and developing a set of recommendations to communicate this out to our wider campus community. The group’s work included piloting several transformative agreements and establishing a rubric to evaluate these agreements. The creation of the group allowed the library to gain valuable knowledge and expertise, engage actively in new models for supporting OA, and start critical conversations on campus. The group continues the work, with the ultimate goal of affordable OA publishing and communicating the value of OA with researchers and campus partners, as well as positioning the library as a campus leader in OA.

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