Description
Transformative agreements can help libraries expand content offerings and subsidize publishing costs. RIT Libraries, new to these agreements, has joined 4 over the past year in a process driven by Electronic Resources and Acquisitions/Serials. We will walk the audience through the assessment criteria for the two of the agreements we joined (Cambridge and Springer), along with lessons learned. The assessment criteria include: cost, impact on access to content, a scan of publishing activities on campus, as well as turnaway data obtained from vendors and a new implementation of Celus 5 for Counter 5 data.
We will share the language used to obtain buy-in from campus stakeholders, as well as steps we took to advertise our new agreements with the RIT community. We will also share the cross-departmental lessons learned. We discovered that Transformative Agreements overall were new to many RIT Libraries staff. We offer recommendations on how to educate other departments about the nature of these agreements and how to work with reference librarians, liaisons to departments, and bibliographers who will be impacted. Though Transformative Agreements offer opportunities there are also many challenges to bringing them on-board for the first time.
Date of creation, presentation, or exhibit
11-5-2025
Document Type
Presentation
Department, Program, or Center
RIT Libraries
Recommended Citation
Freer, J. & Trout, D. (2025, November 5). Assessing, selling and onboarding transformative agreements at an R2 institution [Conference presentation]. Charleston Conference 2025, Charleston, SC, United States.
Campus
RIT – Main Campus
Included in
Collection Development and Management Commons, Scholarly Communication Commons, Scholarly Publishing Commons
