Basic Idea

• check the publishing costs
  • for Germany
  • in a reference year
  • with the big publishers
• get the same publishing but Open Access
  • for Germany
  • in future
  • with the big publishers (Elsevier, Springer, Wiley)

As of 2020

• DEALs were achieved with Springer and Wiley
  • Open Access for most of their journals
  • on the base of the 2017 numbers
• Elsevier still on stall

As of 2023

1. Elsevier is just signed

   • opt-in for institutions
   • publish OA with APCs
     • 2550/6450 Euro/article + 3-4% increase/year
   • read access to almost all journals

2. Wiley/Springer contracts expire

• public funding, public research
• Open Access by default
• in line with Plan S
• control on publication costs

• it is APC based
  • no money, no Open Access
  • more articles processed, more money
  • misguiding incentives for publishers
• libraries are out of the game
  • one layer of quality control less
• favours large publishers
  • rewards previous overpricing
• no sustainable transition to OA
  • journals remain hybrid

• community based journals! Diamant OA
• arxiv other open publishing platforms
• subscribe to open
• other?

Read and Hear more

• Statement by Stockholm University – need to move away from transformative agreements
• lohnt sich der DEAL – a quite well-balanced analysis of the DEAL (in German)
• The DEAL Project (official website)
• Π = 3 podcast on OA