STM publisher Springer and the Swedish library consortium for universities and research institutes (Bibsam) have finalised a broad agreement for Springer Compact running through December 2018. Springer Compact is a transitional deal combining reading access and open access publishing in one payment scheme. Specifically, participating consortium members’ researchers gain access to over 2,000 Springer journals and also the right to publish their research via the open access model in more than 1,650 Springer hybrid journals. Publishing articles open access helps current findings reach a larger audience, benefiting not only science but the society at large.
Bibsam is the first Scandinavian library consortium to start using Springer Compact as a means to enable researchers from over 30 member institutes, including all major universities like Gothenburg, Lund, Stockholm, Uppsala and the Karolinska Institute, to publish their research open access.
Over the lifetime of the deal, Bibsam and Springer will monitor and evaluate the arrangement to ensure that it continues to meet the Swedish higher education institutions' needs and funders' requirements as the open access environment evolves.
Springer has already signed similar agreements with the Max Planck Society in Germany, the Association of Dutch Universities (VSNU), the Austrian Academic Library Consortium, and Jisc in the UK.
The National Library of Sweden negotiates license agreements for electronic information resources on behalf of Swedish universities and research institutes with a turnover of approximately 35 million EUR (2016). The main objective of the Bibsam Consortium is to provide both financial and administrative savings for participating institutions and favourable terms of usage.
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