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We've extracted links from SHERPA/RoMEO in romeo-publisher-links.tsv (file not tracked due to RoMEO's ND license). Not many journals have "License to Publish" (LTP) links. However, sometimes links to their publication agreements may have other names.

The relevance of RoMEO will depend on whether publisher's place their agreements online. I am not sure whether that's a common practice. The usual workflow is that authors access the agreement via an online system which requires login or perhaps via email. If this is the case, RoMEO may not be the best resource for LTP or CTA (copyright transfer agreement) links, since most may not be available on the plain web. And even if a publisher posts a LTP/CTA publicly, there is no gaurantee that is the agreement they're currently sending authors.

At the end of the day, we're interested in the agreements authors actually sign. @jpolka any thoughts?