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Earlier this year, negotiations with Wiley for a new publish and read agreement for 2025 broke down. It is now clear that there will also be no new agreement for gold journals.

Week17 marks the international campaign Libraries' Sustainability Week – and the University Library is of course involved!

Negotiations between Sikt and Wiley have been ongoing since spring 2024. Unfortunately, the parties did not reach an agreement on a new publish and read deal for 2025.

Negotiations with the two major publishers, Elsevier and Taylor & Francis, have resulted in new agreements at the beginning of the year. Effective from January 2025, a publish and read agreement has also been concluded with the publisher Brill.

The Publish and Read Agreements that the University of Oslo (UiO) has with major academic publishers are set to expire at the end of the year. Negotiations on new agreements are ongoing. The overall cost remains a significant challenge.
Update* January 14: New agreement with Elsevier is in place.

The strike is now over and library services are back to normal.

UiOs students and staff can now get access to PressReader. The service allows you to read more than 7400 newspapers and magazines from around the world.