Transformative Agreements
Gleeson Library is pleased to announce that the University of San Francisco has saved over $20,000 in Article Processing Charges (APCs) through its use of transformative agreements over the last few years.
A transformative agreement describes, “agreements negotiated between institutions (libraries, national and regional consortia) and publishers in which former subscription expenditures are repurposed to support open access publishing of the negotiating institutions’ authors” (ESAC, n.d.). Through these agreements, scholars can have their works professionally published, publishers are paid to make works available through open access, and researchers and readers can access new scholarly works without barriers to access.
Through our consortial membership with SCELC (Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium), USF faculty have access to five agreements pertaining to publication with the American Chemical Society, Association for Computing Machinery, Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, and Springer Compact. These agreements cover a huge range of journals and disciplines, and while the terms of agreement differ per publisher, the majority either waive APCs or cover the publishing costs in full.
We are thrilled to share below the seven articles that have been published with the support of a transformative agreement – each of these had an average APC of $3200, all of which were waived or covered. This amounts to savings of over $20,000 for USF – and as these publications are available as open access, they have garnered high citation and metric counts in a short time.
Congratulations to our USF authors on publishing their research! Our transformative agreements are a limited-time-only offer, with both Cambridge University Press and Springer Compact agreements expiring at the end of the year. Please consider taking advantage of these agreements to publish your research. For questions or consultations, please contact Nicky Andrews (Open Education Librarian), nandrews1@usfca.edu.
Cambridge University Press
Saeed, S. (2022). Ritual Cursing as an Oath of Submission: The Problem of Religious Difference across Safavid Iran and Modern Pakistan. Modern Asian Studies 56(3): 993-1021. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X2100007X
Sundstrom, R. R. (2023). Integration and Reaction. Dialogue 62(1): 77-83.
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0012217322000075
Springer Compact
Friedman, E.J., & Rodríguez Gustá, A.L. (2023). “Welcome to the Revolution”: Promoting Generational Renewal in Argentina’s Ni Una Menos. Qualitative Sociology 46, 245–277.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-023-09530-0
Gamson, J., & Hertz, R. (2023). “But Everything Else, I Learned Online”: School-Based and Internet-Based Sexual Learning Experiences of Heterosexual and LGBQ + Youth. Qualitative Sociology 46, 461–485. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-023-09550-w
Hurst-Hopf, J.S., Monroy Montemayor, M.P., Leonardi, N.N., & Nunes, Scott. (2023). Juvenile Social Play Predicts Docility in Belding’s Ground Squirrels. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 77. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-023-03341-7
Stump, D.J. (2024). Pragmatism Versus Social Construction: A Reply to Shahryari. Journal for General Philosophy of Science 55, 153–157 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838-023-09668-z
Suni, S., & Hernandez, M. (2023). Strong Decreases in Genetic Diversity Despite High Gene Flow for a Solitary Bee. Conservation Genetics 24, 607–615. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-023-01524-3