Sam Winemiller writes: “Read & Publish (R&P) agreements (commonly called ‘transformative agreements’) are package subscription deals offered to academic libraries by publishers, that include allowing an institution’s affiliated authors to receive coverage for article processing charges required to publish open access in a portfolio of the publisher’s academic journals. In their current common form, big R&P agreements ask research institutions to further sacrifice control of the scholarly communication system to for-profit publishers by incentivizing submissions to their journals. This relationship undercuts efforts to promote author and/or institutional engagement with other OA publishing and distribution models.”