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HRK leader voices concerns that transformative agreements are “perpetuation of old system” in publishing
The head of the HRK, Germany’s Rectors’ Conference, has revealed that there are doubts among the country’s researchers and librarians over several open-access agreements signed between Germany’s Projekt Deal consortium and big publishers.
In January 2020, Projekt Deal, which represents more than 700 German institutions, and the publisher Springer Nature signed a two-year “transformative agreement” to shift the scientific publishing system away from subscription-based reading towards a model with papers free at the point of access.
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