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<p>Credo che dovremmo incominciare anche noi a discutere della
necessità di rendere trasparenti i contratti siglati con i grandi
editori, anche se qui si parla di OA Big Deal, modello che da noi
- al momento - non è stato ancora usato.</p>
<p>Domando a chi più esperto di me se vi siano particolati limiti
legislativi a impedirlo o se tutto rientri nell'ambito del
rapporto tra privati e quindi rivedibile tramite negoziazione tra
le parti. In tal caso, non potremmo utilizzare a nostro vantaggio
i precedenti che si stanno creando nel resto dell'Europa?<br>
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<td>[GOAL] OA Big Deals: VSNU embraces greater transparency</td>
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<td>Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)
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<p class="MsoNormal">Over three months ago (in March) the
Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU)
published a very brief news item announcing that it had
reached agreement with Springer Nature on a new OA Big Deal. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Curious as to the details of the agreement,
I invited VSNU to answer some questions, both about the
Springer Nature deal and VSNU’s failure to reach agreement
with the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), concerning which
another short news item had been published at the same time.
VSNU’s Spokesperson and Advisor Public Affairs Bart Pierik
agree to answer my questions.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">When I sent my list of questions to him,
however, Pierik appeared to change his mind. “Considering the
fact that we are finalising some more deals with publishers at
this moment (we just published good news about Oxford
University Press) my proposal is that we would be glad to make
one Q&A in April about all of these deals,” he emailed me.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I was disappointed but decided instead to
write something more wide-ranging about the growing number of
OA Big Deals we can see being agreed between legacy publishers
and the research community and to mention VSNU in that larger
piece.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I concluded that article by again inviting
VSNU to answer my questions, adding, “By doing so they can
help shine a light on this somewhat crepuscular corner of
scholarly communication and demonstrate that affordability and
transparency are just as important as accessibility.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">April came and went, and I assumed my
questions had fallen into a black hole somewhere never to be
seen again. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To my surprise, however, yesterday I
received an email from Wilma Van Wezenbeek, Programme Manager
Open Access at VSNU.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Not only did Van Wezenbeek attach answers
to my questions but she informed me that VSNU has now
published the contracts it has signed with both Springer
Nature and Taylor & Francis (although Springer Nature has
not permitted VSNU to disclose their general terms and
conditions).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The email and the Q&A can both be read
here:<o:p></o:p></p>
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