DESCRIPTION
In 2021, Illinois State University’s Milner Library entered its first transformative agreement with Cambridge University Press, and by 2025, the library had expanded open access (OA) publishing support to twelve agreements with publishers including ACS, Sage, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, and Wiley. This webinar reports on findings from surveys and interviews conducted with ISU authors who published under these transformative agreements as corresponding author. The presenters will provide insight into authors’ awareness of library OA agreements, authors’ experiences navigating various publishers’ OA platforms and processes, how OA agreements impact author venue selection, author order, and selection of corresponding author, and whether authors perceive OA agreements to be an endorsement of a publisher. The presenters will also explore how their university’s transformative agreements benefit researchers at other institutions and investigate the impact of these agreements on inter-institutional collaboration. In doing so, the presenters will share implications for collection strategy, author communication, and agreement management.
SPEAKER BIO
Rachel E. Scott is Professor and Head of Acquisitions and Cataloging Services at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Scott has a PhD in historical musicology and has worked in academic libraries for over twenty years. Accordingly, she has wide-ranging research interests that are informed both by her academic training as a humanities researcher and her practitioner responsibilities overseeing acquisitions, description, and discovery work in libraries. Scott conducts research at the intersections of library collections and their discovery, music bibliography, and scholarly communication with the goal of optimizing library resources and services for scholars across all disciplines.
Lindsey Skaggs is Assistant Professor and Scholarly Communication Librarian at Illinois State University, where she oversees the library's open access initiatives and manages the university's institutional repository, ISU ReD. She earned her Master of Library Science from Indiana University and worked in library technology for close to a decade before joining ISU in 2020. Her research is focused on user experience in libraries and open access publishing models.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Registration Deadline for live event: December 3rd, 2026. This webinar will be recorded and made available to registrants after the webinar is completed. The last date to purchase recording: March 3rd, 2027. After March 3rd, 2027 the recording will be made freely available.
WEBINAR RATES
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$60 for Non-Members
$120 for Group Registration. No size limit. One person registers and shares login details with their group.
