Transformative Journals: an initial assessment

cOAlition S endorses several strategies to encourage subscription publishers to transition to full and immediate Open Access (OA).  These approaches are referred to as “Transformative Arrangements” and include Transformative Agreements, Transformative Model Agreements and Transformative Journals. A Transformative Journal (TJ) is a subscription/hybrid journal that is actively committed to transitioning to a fully Open Access journal. Some 16 months on from publishing the formal TJ criteria, 14 publishers and some 2275 journals, have enrolled in this programme. This is a summary of the uptake of the programme by publishers and an analysis of the initial data TJ publishers have provided.