Community-supported transitions to Open Access increasingly avail themselves of models centered on research institutions shouldering their costs, which removes both reader- and author-facing barriers https://theplosblog.plos.org/2021/01/plos-and-the-canadian-research-knowledge-network-announce-community-action-publishing-deal/

Multiple models of Open Access are likely to be needed to accelerate the transition to Open Science in specialized fields, such as medicine, especially as the shift from paywall-based agreements to author-facing fees may create hurdles for researchers https://openresearch.community/documents/the-move-to-open-medical-library-leadership-in-scholarly-communication-chris-shaffer-journal-of-the-medical-library-association-109-1-january-2021

Under the aegis of transformative deals, university libraries become closely involved in resource allocation processes, as part of publishing research results in Open Access journals https://news.lib.berkeley.edu/springer-nature-launch