Support for Open Science and Transformative Agreements

Incentive Agreements for Immediate Open Access

UJM has signed two agreements, negotiated by Couperin, as part of the Support Plan for Scientific Publishing aimed at facilitating online access to a greater number of journals and promoting Open Access to scientific publications.

Couperin is the Unified Consortium of University and Research Institutions for Access to Digital Publications. This network is specialized in the negotiation and expertise of electronic documentary resources for higher education and research in France. It represents over 250 institutions.

Cairn Journals Agreement (2022-2026)

This incentive mechanism allows academic journals to opt for immediate Open Access by maximizing the security of their digital revenue. An annual campaign for welcoming new journals is in place under this system.

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Open Edition Journals Agreement (2022-2026)

An agreement based on the Freemium model, which relies on institutional support for open access journals through the Freemium program (182 journals).

Freemium: Journals distributed under this model are freely accessible for reading in HTML format, while PDF and ePUB formats are reserved for readers from subscribing institutions, which also benefit to other services (usage statistics, records, training).

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Open Science Support Campaign (2024-2028)

As part of its efforts to promote Open Access to scientific information and initiatives aimed at amplifying its development, the Couperin consortium encourages its members to provide financial support to infrastructures working for open science. UJM has chosen to support 3 resources for the year 2024 :

• DOAJ  : The Directory of Open Access Journals provides an invaluable service to libraries and to the research community, by identifying, listing, and evaluating open access journals. DOAJ also works with publishers to facilitate the creation of open access journals that comply with the best practices and quality criteria it has established and published.

• Episciences   : The French Open Access diamond platform for scientific editing and publishing, covering all disciplines, developed by the Centre for Direct Scientific Communication (CCSD), a support and research unit (UAR3668) of CNRS/INRAE/Inria
• Open Citations  : This independent infrastructure for open scholarly communication is dedicated to the publication of bibliographic data and open citations using semantic web technologies.

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Transformative Agreements

UJM has signed two  "transformative" agreements that allow an exemption from publication fees or reduced-cost publishing. These two agreements stem from a collective negotiation conducted on behalf of Couperin.

EDP Sciences (2023-2026 agreement)

Corresponding authors from the University Jean Monnet can publish in immediate Open Access without Article Processing Charges in 30 journals published by EDP Sciences.

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Elsevier (2024-2027agreement)

Corresponding authors from the University can publish in immediate Open Access without publication fees in most Elsevier journals  (list of eligible titles).

Starting in January 2024, all articles published in open access by a corresponding author from a suscribing institution in an eligible hybrid or full Open Access journal will be covered under the negotiated quota of open access articles and will no longer require individual payment of APCs (Article Processing Charges). All these open access articles will be immediately available without embargo and with a default CC-BY license or, at the sole discretion of the corresponding author, a CC-BY-NC-ND license. Corresponding authors affiliated with subscribing institutions will retain full freedom of choice regarding Open Access or subscription-based publishing options.

A 10% discount on APCs will be applied to articles published in open access in certain journals not eligible for the APC-free mechanism, including Cell Press journals  (list of eligible titles).

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