Understanding the OA2020 and ESAC Initiatives: The Reflection of Transformative Agreements in Taiwan

Abstract

Some libraries in Taiwan have adopted Publish and Read Plan or Transformative Agreements in the library journal subscription, which treated as Open Access plans in transition, for the journal renewal. As the publishing amount of scholarly articles in Taiwan are less than the Western countries, the most agreements here came up as Article Processed Charge (APC) discount or Read and Publish plan from scholarly association or medium publishers. Consortium on Core Electronic Resources in Taiwan (CONCERT) is encountering the global trends and domestic needs of the Transformative Agreements, we understand the complexities of major publishers and would like to have more exploration for the new concepts and plans to OA2020 Initiatives and Efficiency and Standards for Article Charges Initiatives, ESAC. Both of them advance the changing and migration of Open Access movement in western scholarly institutions. We intend to discover more fundamental steps to achieving ways or models in line with the Taiwan expectation.

Keywords

• oa2020
• esac initiatives
• transformative agreement
• taiwan
• consortium on core electronic resources in taiwan
• concert