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As a member of the Libraries' senior leadership team, Pearce will direct collection strategy, scholarly communications, academic and community engagement, and the administration of eleven departmental libraries and centers.
With these agreements in place, Penn authors publish nearly 50% of their publications with publishers who have entered into open access agreements with the Penn Libraries.
New agreements with Springer, the Company of Biologists, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Institute of Physics build on the Penn Libraries’ ongoing efforts to support open access publishing.
The three-year agreement, effective 2024-2026, will allow Penn-affiliated authors to publish their articles open access in Wiley’s hybrid journals without paying their own article processing fees.