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Association president says agreements have not shifted scholarly publishing to open access as planned
Italy should shift away from using so-called transformative agreements to pay for scholarly publishing, according to AISA, the Italian association for the promotion of open science.
These agreements are generally national-level contracts that academic institutions sign with commercial publishers to access the subscription-based content of their journals and cover the costs of publishing in their journals with open access.