New DEAL Operations website provides Librarians, institutions and researchers comprised in Germany’s nationwide Projekt DEAL consortium practical information, updates and support to successfully implement the transformative agreements negotiated by Projekt DEAL and enable a sustainable, fair and efficient transition of scholarly journal publishing to open access. The DEAL agreements include the transformation of subscription contracts to Open Access offerings and thus also the reallocation of funding for scientific publishing. This will enable scientists in Germany to distribute their research publications freely and without restriction and improve the availability of information for all.
The offer will be oriented towards the needs of the various target groups:
- Libraries will be supported in the optimal use of DEAL contracts at their institutions and in positioning themselves in an open scientific publication system.
- Scientific authors receive the most important information in German and English on Open Access publishing with DEAL.
- University administrators, science managers and anyone interested in the background to DEAL contracts can find out more about the DEAL strategy on the DEAL Operations website. Furthermore, the offer wants to show why a system change in the business model of academic journals is necessary.
"Librarians, institutions and researchers comprised in Germany’s nationwide Projekt DEAL consortium now have a new resource to help them take full advantage of the open access publishing and expanded reading access made possible by the DEAL agreements." says the official announcement on the website.
About Projekt DEAL
The German Rectors’ Conference (Deutsche Hochulrektorenkonferenz) was tasked by the Alliance of German Science Organizations to institute Projekt DEAL to negotiate nationwide transformative “publish and read” agreements with the largest commercial publishers of scholarly journals on behalf of all German academic institutions including universities, universities of applied sciences, research institutions, state and regional libraries. The DEAL transformative agreements empower every scholar in Germany with the opportunity to retain copyright over their scholarly articles, the freedom to publish them in the trusted journals of their choice, and the means to do so openly to maximize their global visibility and impact.
About MPDL Services GmbH
MPDL Services GmbH acts as the contractual partner for Projekt DEAL, a project within the “Digital Information” priority initiative of the Alliance of Science Organizations in Germany. As a member of the Alliance of Science Organizations in Germany, and following approval granted by the federal and state governments represented in the Joint Science Conference (Gemeinsame Wissenschaftskonferenz, GWK), the Max Planck Society established MPDL Services GmbH, an affiliate of the Max Planck Digital Library, as the “DEAL Operating Entity” and 100% subsidiary of the Society, specifically to act as the contracting party for the DEAL agreements and to facilitate implementation of the agreements among German institutions.
Source: https://www.deal-operations.de/en/news/new-website-deal-operations