Contracts & conditions

Based on the Swiss Open Access Strategy the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries has concluded numerous Open Access agreements in recent years. These include the so-called Big Deals with the three largest publishers, Elsevier, Springer Nature, and Wiley, negotiated on behalf of swissuniversities, with the Consortium providing organizational and subject-specific support. The negotiations are based on the objectives of the mandate adopted by swissuniversities.

The Consortium also conducts its own negotiations to implement the objectives of the Open Access Strategy for other scientific publishers. These negotiations are also based on the negotiation mandate.

The following table lists the products for which an Open Access agreement is currently in place at the Consortium. For further information, please click on the product name.

List of current agreements

Product Provider Type
ACM OPEN Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Database
American Chemical Society (ACS) American Chemical Society (ACS) E-Journals
American Institute of Physics (AIP) Journals American Institute of Physics (AIP) E-Journals
American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Journals American Society for Microbiology (ASM) E-Journals
Annual Reviews Annual Reviews E-Journals
BMJ BMJ Group E-Journals
Cambridge University Press Journals Cambridge University Press E-Journals
De Gruyter Journals De Gruyter E-Journals
Frontiers Frontiers Media SA E-Journals
IEEE Standards & More (SAM) E-Journals
IOP Science Extra Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP) E-Journals
Karger Karger E-Journals
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) Ovid E-Journals
MDPI MDPI E-Journals
Nature Journals Springer Nature E-Journals
Oxford Journals Oxford University Press E-Journals
PLOS Journals Public Library of Science (PLOS) E-Journals
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Journals Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Archive, E-Journals
Sage Journals SAGE Publications E-Journals
ScienceDirect Elsevier E-Journals
scientific.net Trans Tech Publications E-Journals
Springer Journals Springer Nature E-Journals
Springer Nature Fully Open Access Journals Springer Nature Fully Open Access Journals E-Journals
Taylor & Francis Journals Taylor & Francis E-Journals
Wiley Journals Wiley E-Journals

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