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 7,443 hybrid journals included in consortial transformative agreements in Germany is as follows:

2017-2024

Global Germany*
12.2% 36.7%
1.16M out of 9.48M 135K out of 367K

2023

Global Germany*
19.7% 58.7%
246K out of 1.25M 25K out of 43K

*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 2024.