Getting the Combination Right for Transformative Agreements

Over the next several weeks, CCC is delivering a series of virtual programming originally intended for London Book Fair presentations.

Earlier this month, London Book Fair organizers announced cancellation of the 2020 program scheduled for March 10-12. The news was disappointing, of course, though not unexpected at a time when the world is confronting the pandemic spread of the COVID-19 corona virus.

At CCC, we recognize the difficulty in making the decision not to go ahead with this year’s London Book Fair given global health concerns. We also believe in the strength of the content we had prepared to present as well as the importance of information sharing for the publishing community.

Over the next several weeks, CCC is delivering a series of virtual programming originally intended for London Book Fair presentations. For a complete schedule, please visit www.copyright.com/lbf2020

This is a podcast edition for “Getting the Combination Right For Transformative Agreements,” scheduled for the first day of London Book Fair 2020.

For the transition to Open Access to be sustainable over time, publishers are innovating to create frictionless, flexible, and scalable workflows for funders, institutions and researchers.

Panelists Niamh O’Connor of PLOS, Sara Bosshart of IWA Publishing, Adam Blow of Cambridge University Press and CCC’s Jennifer Goodrich share insights on how they’ve adapted systems to support emerging needs under terms of Transformative Agreements.

Adam Blow is Academic Sales Development Manager at Cambridge University Press.  He works with Cambridge’s sales teams around the world to create Cambridge’s transformative journals agreements

Sara Bosshart is Open Access Publisher at IWA Publishing, the publishing branch of the International Water Association, where she is responsible for implementing a strategic transition towards Open Access. This includes raising OA awareness; launching new OA journals; transitioning journals to OA; and establishing institutional OA agreements. Originally a marine geologist, Sara began her career in publishing in 2013 as an Editorial Assistant at Frontiers where she helped to launch a suite of new OA journals, including Frontiers in Marine Science. Sara was also responsible for spearheading the launch of the Frontiers London Office in 2016.

Jennifer Goodrich is Director, Product Development, Publisher Solutions, at Copyright Clearance Center. She leads the development and evolution of CCC’s RightsLink for Scientific Communications solution, an innovative e-commerce platform that automates the payment and collection of article publication charges (APCs) for open access content.

Niamh O’Connor is Chief Publishing Officer at PLOS, a non-profit open-access science, technology and medicine publisher. She is also Head of PLOS’s office in Cambridge, UK, andis currently Chair of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP). Previously, she was the Director of Publishing at the Biochemical Society/Portland Press, and at the Royal Society of Chemistry, she held a variety of publishing roles including Publisher and Editor. She holds a PhD in chemistry from the National University of Ireland (UCC).