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Oxford University Press unveils landmark Read and Publish deal in Japan
The agreement with the Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources (JUSTICE) will provide Japanese researchers with greater access to research and more opportunity to publish their work open access
Oxford, England, 17 November 2022: The world’s largest university press, Oxford University Press (OUP), has today announced a transformative three-year Read and Publish agreement with major journals consortium, the Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources (JUSTICE).
Under the agreement, members of the JUSTICE consortium that opt-in will be able to rapidly increase the proportion of articles that they publish open access in OUP journals. The consortium’s institutions will also benefit from discounts on article processing charges (APCs) for fully open access journals, as well as comprehensive access to OUP’s full collection of high-quality journals.
The Read and Publish deal is OUP’s first national agreement in Asia and its 30th worldwide. OUP has a substantial publishing programme in Japan, with approximately 5% of OUP journal articles currently authored by Japanese researchers. As a result of this agreement, authors at participating institutions will benefit from increased opportunities to publish open access.
Speaking about the agreement, David Clark, Managing Director, Academic at OUP said: “We are delighted to have reached this transformative deal with the JUSTICE consortium. This new Read and Publish agreement will not only provide access for Japanese researchers to our outstanding collection of journals but will also enable an increasing number of those researchers to publish their work open access.”
Yasuhiko Hamao, Chair of the JUSTICE Steering Committee, added: “I am grateful to have reached an agreement on the Read and Publish deal proposed by Oxford University Press, which aligns with the JUSTICE OA2020 Roadmap. We are looking forward to seeing many members join the agreement to advance open access initiatives in Japan, which are getting a lot of attention from Japanese researchers.”
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About Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press is the largest university press publisher of open research. It publishes over 100 fully open access journals, more than 200 open access monographs, and offers an open access publishing option on over 500 journals. The Press publishes almost 2,000 OA articles per month across all major subject areas.
Oxford University Press has been publishing journals for more than a century and has more than 500 years of publishing expertise.
About Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources
Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources (JUSTICE) is a consortium created to promote many activities for providing stably and continuously academic information, including e-journal that is essential for education and research activities of the university in Japan. The mission assigned to JUSTICE is to contribute to the enhancement of the nation's academic information infrastructure by contracting, managing, providing, and preserving e-resources and by training personnel with necessary skills. JUSTICE was established within the framework of collaboration and cooperation between the Japanese Coordinating Committee for University Libraries and the National Institute of Informatics（NII）in 2011.At present, JUSTICE is comprised of over 500 participating libraries and is the nation's largest organization of library consortia. www.nii.ac.jp/content/justice_en
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