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Taylor & Francis Group and CzechELib sign first transformative Read and Publish open access agreement

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CzechELib has signed its first Read and Publish agreement with Taylor & Francis Group.  

This deal enables 18 Institutions to publish their work in open access in over 2,000 Taylor & Francis journals, with 50% of their previous output made open access in 2021 and 100% of articles made open access by 2022. Additionally, participating institutions can access content published on a subscription basis in more than 2,000 journals. 

Carolyn Kirby, Open Access Business Development Director at Taylor & Francis Group says: “Our first Read and Publish agreement with CzechELib is designed to support research while we work through a transition to an open environment. The ‘Read’ portion of this deal allows researchers and students to access a wide range of journal content. The ‘Publish’ element means that researchers can publish their work open access immediately and in a more streamlined and optimized way.”  

Jiří Jirát, Head of the Licensing and Administrative Unit at CzechELib comments: “Through our Read and Publish deal with Taylor & Francis Group, 18 Institutions now have access to significantly more journal content and our researchers have more publishing options, raising the global visibility of their work without additional financial barriers.” 

National Centre for Electronic Information Resources – CzechELib, aims to ensure the effective purchase of and access to key EIRs for their users in the fields of research, development, and innovation in the Czech Republic.  

Taylor & Francis Group is committed to open access, offering a variety of open access publishing options to meet the needs of each author, with rapid online publication and high visibility and discoverability for published research. 

Contact:  

Jennifer McMillan:  jennifer.mcmillan@tandf.co.uk or communications@tandf.co.uk  

About Taylor & Francis Group 

Taylor & Francis Group partners with researchers, scholarly societies, universities and libraries worldwide to bring knowledge to life.  As one of the world’s leading publishers of scholarly journals, books, eBooks and reference works, its content spans all areas of Humanities, Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Science, Technology and Medicine. 

From our network of offices in Oxford, New York, Philadelphia, Boca Raton, Melbourne, Singapore, Beijing, Tokyo, and New Delhi, Taylor & Francis staff provide local expertise and support to our editors, societies and authors and tailored, efficient customer service to our library colleagues. 

About CzechELib 

National Centre for Electronic Information Resources – CzechELib. This project aims to ensure the effective purchase of and access to key EIRs for their users in the fields of research, development, and innovation in the Czech Republic, thereby significantly reducing public (research organizations) spending on related administrative activities. The project is managed by the National Library of Technology and co-funded by the European Union – Operational Programme Research, Development and Education in the years 2017-2022. The concurrent and follow-up project NCIS R&D&I is funded by the state budget trough Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic in the years 2021-2027.