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Norway’s UNIT and Taylor & Francis Group introduce flexible approach to university research access and publishing
UNIT - The Norwegian Directorate for ICT and Joint Services in Higher Education and Research - and Taylor & Francis Group, one of the world’s leading academic publishers, today announce the signing of a three-year partnership, beginning in 2020.
Providing long-term stability and certainty over access and costs, this transformative deal ensures researchers from UNIT’s 23 Norwegian institutions can publish their research open access and have continued read access to the Taylor & Francis and Routledge portfolio of journals, stretching across science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and humanities.
This ‘read and publish’ agreement enables consortia members to focus on working with academics in Norway to advance and support their research objectives, in the knowledge their reading and publishing needs are secure.
Roar Olsen, Director General, UNIT, says: “We are pleased to have reached an agreement with Taylor & Francis that meets our requirements for transition agreements, and will enable Norwegian researchers to read and publish in the majority of Taylor & Francis journals. Taylor & Francis join a range of other major publishers in new transformative agreements that will make Norwegian research openly available.”
“We will continue to innovate and evolve our approach to ensure sustainable publishing models for the long-term, working with partners to develop models that continue to support the advancement of knowledge through our publishing output and uphold consistently high standards across every article and publication in our portfolio.” says Christoph Chesher, Group Sales Director, Taylor & Francis Group.
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About UNIT – The Norwegian Directorate for ICT and Joint Services in Higher Education and Research
UNIT was established by the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research in 2018.
UNIT provides a wide range of services for research and higher education, and plays a central role in following up the government's digitization policy.
UNIT negotiates agreements with academic publishers on behalf of Norwegian institutions and is national coordinator for open access work in Norway.
About Taylor & Francis Group
Taylor & Francis Group partners with researchers, scholarly societies, universities and libraries worldwide to bring research to life and advance knowledge across the world. As one of the world’s leading publishers of scholarly journals, books, eBooks and reference works our content spans all areas of Humanities, Social Sciences, Behavioural Sciences, Science, Technology and Medicine.
Through both subscription and open-access publications, the company plays a vital role in the research network, publishing more than 2,600 trusted, independent journals, across 42 different disciplines to the highest standard, supporting new research as well as preserving and curating today’s existing body of knowledge for years to come.
