Transformative agreements: one objective, a variety of approaches – OA2020/ESAC Community of Practice Call

On June 30^th, 2021, the OA2020 and ESAC communities came together in a joint Community of Practice Call under the topic “Transformative agreements: one objective, a variety of approaches”.

The meeting kicked off with a presentation by Ignasi Labastida, Head of the Research Unit at the University of Barcelona’s Learning and Research Resources Centre (CRAI), who introduced Spain’s approach and negotiation outcomes. In the follow-up discussion, Pernille Hammelsø of the Royal Library Denmark and Nina Karlstrøm of Unit (Norway) highlighted the commonalities and unique characteristics in their approaches.

• Recording
• Ignasi Labastida’s slides
• Pernille Hammelsø’s slides

This call complemented the US OA2020 Community of Practice Call of the previous month, in which Ellen Finnie discussed the University of California’s four-year transformative agreement with Elsevier. The recording of this call is also available here.