Open-Access-Transformation Contract “Hormone and Metabolic Research”

该项目旨在将单一期刊从订阅模式转变为开放获取金牌模式。这一试点将使一家尚未在开放获取出版方面积累太多经验的中型德国出版商获得这种出版模式的宝贵经验。特别是，考虑到与改变出版模式相关的经济风险，出版商寻求收集有关新机制和方法的经验（例如作者身份识别）。根据出版参数的表现以及是否可以实现可持续性，出版商显然有兴趣将开放获取模式扩展到出版商的整个投资组合。鉴于每年大约有24个许可证订阅者和大约24篇开放获取文章的数量相对较少，出版商最初将手动进行所需的调整。然而，它已与出版商达成协议，将在2019年评估首批结果，并根据评估结果将更多期刊纳入转型过程。在这种情况下，将实现流程的自动化。此外，对于大多数许可证订阅者来说，这个试点项目提供了第一次收集开放获取转型经验的机会。

The project aims at transforming a single journal from a subscription model to Open Access Gold. This pilot will allow a medium-sized German publisher, who has not yet gathered much experience in Open Access publishing, to gain valuable experience with this publishing model. In particular, given the economic risks associated with changing the publishing model, the publisher seeks to gather experience with new mechanisms and methods (in example author identification). Dependent on how publishing parameters are behaving and if sustainability can be achieved, the publisher is explicitly interested in expanding the Open Access model to the publisher’s entire portfolio. In view of the relatively small number of about two dozen license subscribers and about two dozen OA articles per annum, the publisher will initially make the required adjustments manually. However, it has been agreed with the publisher to evaluate first results already in 2019 and dependent on the outcome of the evaluation to include further journals in the transformation process. In this case, automatization of processes will be implemented. Also, for most license subscribers this pilot project offers a first time opportunity to gather experience with Open Access transformation.