Virginia's Academic Library Consortium

VIVA has started a new agreement with Knowledge Works Global (KGL) to provide publishing services. 

SUMMARY: VIVA has partnered with Knowledge Works Global (KGL) to provide publishing services for VIVA Open Grant recipients for their grant-funded open textbooks, open monographs, and other Open Educational Resources (OER). KGL provides a host of content solutions, including interior and cover design, typesetting, EPUB conversion, artwork/graphics processing, copyediting, proofreading, indexing, accessibility remediation and testing, research and permissions clearance and management, animations, project management, other related services, and print on demand through sister company, Sheridan. 

 This contract is platform-agnostic and does not impact other VIVA-sponsored publishing support, such as Pressbooks or VIVA Open.

 While the contract was designed with OER creation in mind, KGL is also able to provide the same publishing services for books and journals. Additional services not outlined in the contract may also be available; please reach out to KGL with requests or questions about additional services.

 INSTITUTIONS AFFECTED / COST: VIVA will coordinate publishing services for VIVA Open Grant recipients from all institutions. These services are covered by central funds. All member institutions are welcome to use the VIVA agreement as a contract vehicle to provide services to their local institutions at the negotiated rates. Reach out to KGL at the contacts below for a full quote for needed services. Payment for such support would be paid directly from the institution to KGL. 

 EFFECTIVE DATE: February 1st, 2023. 

 VENDOR SUPPORT: For sales questions, please contact: Sanjay Tangri, sanjay.tangri@kwglobal.com and cc viva.kgl@kwglobal.com, the dedicated VIVA-KGL email. For customer service and technical questions please email viva.kgl@kwglobal.com

VIVA has started an agreement with Celus Plus (https://www.celus.net/) to manage our usage statistics.  Created with consortia in mind, Celus Plus has not only harvesting and storage capabilities for e-resource usage statistics but also display and analysis tools.  This new service will automate much of the usage statistics collection work of VIVA; provide more data than we currently provide, such as denials; and enable cross-product comparison, such as rankings of titles by usage and overlap analyses.  

 VIVA’s subscription will cover the shared products, but schools would be able to add a local subscription to Celus for their non-VIVA publishers and vendors at a discounted rate.

VIVA has started a three-year transformative agreement with Cambridge University Press that will allow corresponding authors at all participating institutions to publish open access articles within almost all of CUP’s journals at no additional cost, and which will expand reading access for many to include all of CUP’s journals.

 SUMMARY:  VIVA is beginning a new transformative (read and publish) agreement with CUP.  All participating institutions will now have read access to all of CUP’s over 400 journals (the title list is attached), which represents a dramatic expansion of content for many of the institutions.  Corresponding authors at the participating institutions will also be able to publish journal articles open access at no cost from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025.  This includes almost all of the CUP journals; around 12 are not allowing open access at this time (see column D for “No OA” in the attached title list).  No administration is required by researchers or library staff at participating institutions, and existing transformative agreement institutions will still have access to their own admin portal in RightsLink.  Institutions will receive quarterly and annual cumulative reports detailing their respective publishing outputs.  For existing transformative agreement customers, this will go to the existing contact; for others new to this, it will go to their Collection Development Contact (https://vivalib.org/va/about/contacts/collections) unless you tell me otherwise.

 INSTITUTIONS AFFECTED: All public institutions, as well as the participating private institutions (Hollins University, Mary Baldwin University, Randolph-Macon College, Roanoke College, Shenandoah University, University of Richmond, and Washington & Lee).

 EFFECTIVE DATE:  January 1, 2023.

 ACCESS AND DISCOVERY:  At the start of the agreement next year, participating institutions should select the 2023 full journal collection option in their respective knowledge base: “Cambridge Journals: 2023 Full Collection.”

 AUTHOR RESOURCES:  Author resources for publishing OA are available here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/authors/journals/publishing-open-access/convert-your-article-to-open-access. The attached slides document the author publishing workflow. The key element to note is the decision point around OA, which is the step where an author signs their license to publish. The author experience here will depend upon the journal they are publishing into:

• The majority of the journals follow the process set out on slide 8. Post-acceptance, an author will be directed to a page which hosts the license forms for their journal. They must select the OA license and sign it. At this time, CUP does not have a way to inform authors that they are covered by a transformative agreement on this page, but prior to this step they do encourage authors to check whether they are covered by a transformative agreement using the Waivers and Discounts tool.
• 128 of the journals use an improved license solution, where authors are directed toward a dynamic form which does inform authors that they are covered by a transformative agreement.  An example of this form is on slide 9.
• If authors do not publish OA but are eligible to do so under an agreement, CUP contacts them soon after publication – this is the retroactive OA process set out on slide 10. This language informs authors that they are covered by an agreement and can make the OA decision at this stage in full confidence of no additional cost. This process is applicable to all journals and is handled entirely by Cambridge. 

 VENDOR SUPPORT:  Please use the following contacts:

Questions Related to Open Access Publishing: OAqueries@cambridge.org

Technical Support: academictechsupport@cambridge.org

Sales: Don Gallagher, Donald.gallagher@cambridge.org

VIVA has started a three-year transformative agreement with Cambridge University Press that will allow corresponding authors at all participating institutions to publish open access articles within almost all of CUP’s journals at no additional cost, and which will expand reading access for many to include all of CUP’s journals.

 SUMMARY:  VIVA is beginning a new transformative (read and publish) agreement with CUP.  All participating institutions will now have read access to all of CUP’s over 400 journals (the title list is attached), which represents a dramatic expansion of content for many of the institutions.  Corresponding authors at the participating institutions will also be able to publish journal articles open access at no cost from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025.  This includes almost all of the CUP journals; around 12 are not allowing open access at this time (see column D for “No OA” in the attached title list).  No administration is required by researchers or library staff at participating institutions, and existing transformative agreement institutions will still have access to their own admin portal in RightsLink.  Institutions will receive quarterly and annual cumulative reports detailing their respective publishing outputs.  For existing transformative agreement customers, this will go to the existing contact; for others new to this, it will go to their Collection Development Contact (https://vivalib.org/va/about/contacts/collections) unless you tell me otherwise.

 INSTITUTIONS AFFECTED: All public institutions, as well as the participating private institutions (Hollins University, Mary Baldwin University, Randolph-Macon College, Roanoke College, Shenandoah University, University of Richmond, and Washington & Lee).

 EFFECTIVE DATE:  January 1, 2023.

 ACCESS AND DISCOVERY:  At the start of the agreement next year, participating institutions should select the 2023 full journal collection option in their respective knowledge base: “Cambridge Journals: 2023 Full Collection.”

 AUTHOR RESOURCES:  Author resources for publishing OA are available here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/authors/journals/publishing-open-access/convert-your-article-to-open-access. The attached slides document the author publishing workflow. The key element to note is the decision point around OA, which is the step where an author signs their license to publish. The author experience here will depend upon the journal they are publishing into:

• The majority of the journals follow the process set out on slide 8. Post-acceptance, an author will be directed to a page which hosts the license forms for their journal. They must select the OA license and sign it. At this time, CUP does not have a way to inform authors that they are covered by a transformative agreement on this page, but prior to this step they do encourage authors to check whether they are covered by a transformative agreement using the Waivers and Discounts tool.
• 128 of the journals use an improved license solution, where authors are directed toward a dynamic form which does inform authors that they are covered by a transformative agreement.  An example of this form is on slide 9.
• If authors do not publish OA but are eligible to do so under an agreement, CUP contacts them soon after publication – this is the retroactive OA process set out on slide 10. This language informs authors that they are covered by an agreement and can make the OA decision at this stage in full confidence of no additional cost. This process is applicable to all journals and is handled entirely by Cambridge. 

 VENDOR SUPPORT:  Please use the following contacts:

Questions Related to Open Access Publishing: OAqueries@cambridge.org

Technical Support: academictechsupport@cambridge.org

Sales: Don Gallagher, Donald.gallagher@cambridge.org

VIVA has started a two-year pilot transformative agreement with the Institute of Physics (IOP) that will allow corresponding authors at all participating institutions to publish open access articles within almost all of IOP’s journals at no additional cost, and which will expand reading access to include Electrochemical Society journals.

SUMMARY:  VIVA’s long-running subscription to the IOP journals will now include content from the Electrochemical Society (ECS) beginning 12/1/22.  Corresponding authors at the participating institutions will be able to publish journal articles open access at no fee from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2024.  This includes 58 hybrid journals as well as 18 fully open access journals, with CC BY 4.0 as the standard license.  The American Astronomical Society (AAS) journals are open access and available for all to read, but their OA publishing fees cannot be included in IOP transformative agreements at this time.  No administration is required by researchers or library staff at participating institutions – all qualifying articles will be identified by IOP Publishing and published by default on an open access basis.  All fees related to open access on eligible articles are covered; other charges such as page or color charges are not included and will continue to be charged to authors.  

 AUTHOR RESOURCES:  More information about IOP transformative agreements is available here: https://iopscience.org/transformative-agreements and the author workflow is available here: https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/questions/submit-under-a-transformative-agreement-guide/. 

 INSTITUTIONS AFFECTED: All public institutions, as well as the participating private institutions (Hampden-Sydney College, Hampton University, Randolph-Macon College, Sweet Briar College, University of Richmond, and Washington & Lee).

 EFFECTIVE DATE:  December 1, 2022 for the additional ECS content; January 1, 2023 for the open access publishing.

VIVA has started a new streaming subscription with Psychotherapy.net. The subscription provides access to Psychotherapy.net’s Full Collection. 

SUMMARY: VIVA’s Psychotherapy.net subscription allows for unlimited access to 338 videos designed to improve the clinical skills of mental health professionals. Psychotherapy.net videos feature Yalom, Linehan, Kernberg and other experts in session with real clients, and step-by-step explanations of their interventions. With the Psychotherapy.net video library students can see theory being put into action, bridging the gap between learning about therapy and actually providing therapy. VIVA’s subscription gives users access to the Full Collection, as well as automatic addition of future content, added throughout the year. 

  INSTITUTIONS AFFECTED: All public institutions and all Pooled Funds private institutions. 

 EFFECTIVE DATE: January 1^st, 2023. 

 COSTS: The public institution subscription is covered by Central Funds with a cost share from previous subscribers. The private group subscription is covered by Pooled funds with a cost share from previous subscribers.  Psychotherapy.net offers the non-Pooled Funds private institutions a discount to opt-in locally. 

 ACCESS: All VIVA institutions have already been asked to share their proxy information, which VIVA has shared with Psychotherapy.net. Psychotherapy.net will be providing each school with a customized url. This will look like: http//psychotherapy.net/stream/[Institution_ID]. This will be shared in the near future with the collections and technical services contacts at your institution, with more detailed set-up and troubleshooting instructions included.

 To enable Proxy setup, schools will need to do the following:

1. Configure your proxy to permit

1. http://www.psychotherapy.net
2. The customized institutional url provided to your collections and technical contacts: http//psychotherapy.net/stream/[Institution_ID].

2. Please modify the video library URL provided with your proxy prefix to create a working URL for your proxy setup.
3. If you are using another type of system to authenticate (IP/VPN) please ensure that you have given the URL provided to by psychotherapy.net, and that www.psychotherapy.net has the necessary permissions to enable users access to your video library.

DISCOVERY: Records are available via EDS, WCKB and WCD, Summon, and Primo. MARC records can be found here: https://www.psychotherapy.net/marc-full. Enable access according to your institution’s local catalog/knowledge base set up and discovery set up.

 TRAINING: Please see the attached feature optimization guide from Psychotherapy.net. 

 VENDOR SUPPORT: Please use the following contact for all inquiries (technical support, customer service questions, sales): customerservice@psychotherapy.net