Hybrid Open Access Dashboard: Consortial Transformative Agreements in Germany

How open are hybrid journals in transformative agreements with library consortia based in Germany? You can analyse progress made over time by open license, publisher and country. You can also monitor the availability of publisher-provided metadata in Crossref.

The share of Open Access articles with a Creative Commons license in 7,447 hybrid journals included in consortial transformative agreements in Germany is as follows:

2017-2023

Global Germany*
10.4% 32.8%
852K out of 8.17M 106K out of 322K

2022

Global Germany*
15.9% 55.9%
199K out of 1.25M 24K out of 44K

*Journal articles from lead authors based in Germany. Country affiliation data derived from OpenAlex.

Creative Commons licenses over time

Percentage of Open Access in hybrid journals included in consortial transformative agreements in Germany by Creative Commons license types as provided by Crossref.

*Journal articles from lead authors based in Germany. Country affiliation data derived from OpenAlex.

Creative Commons licenses over time by publisher

Percentage of Open Access in hybrid journals included in consortial transformative agreements in Germany by Creative Commons license types and Top 13 publishers in terms of total Open Access articles published in these journals between 2017 and 2023.