Furthermore, you can also anticipate how policy interventions might affect the scholarly communications landscape in the future. For example, after the recent publication of the OSTP Guidance to Make Federally Funded Research Freely Available Without Delay, several analyses (for example, here, here and here) have been published on the impact of the Memo on publisher portfolios, highlighting that some of the most prestigious journals will be affected the most by the policy.

the open access publishing rights secured through your transformative or open access agreements help your institution fulfill its mission, increasing the visibility and impact of the research of your scholars and scientists.

If you then compare the publishing data you have collected with expenditure data, you will be able to make strategic considerations about the cost/benefit of your current publisher relationships and define objectives for your transformative agreement strategy.

for a high-level view of the publisher journal portfolios most relevant to their authors

you should collect data on the articles published by your authors (institutional output) in order to quantify the annual total of articles published, along with the share of these in which your author is the corresponding author.