THE DAILY INTELLIGENCE RESOURCE FOR THE SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING INDUSTRY (Week February 17 to February 23, 2020)

Pure publish contracts are possible now. It is not necessary to wait for the subscription publishers to change their business model or to pair a pure publish component with a read and publish component in a transformative agreement. The notion of a pure publish agreement has been emerging for some time even if it hadn’t been named previously. Some of the transformative agreements that have been discussed as read and publish (or publish and read), in this post by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, in actuality also include a pure publish component.