Jisc and academic publisher Springer Nature have agreed a further ‘read and publish’ agreement that meets the aims of Plan S and offers researchers a funder compliant route to publishing in hybrid journals. Plan S requires that, from 2020, scientific publications funded by public grants must be published in Open Access journals or platforms.
Building on a previous arrangement, this transformational agreement limits the costs of publishing all UK articles open access (OA) while maintaining access to all of Springer’s subscription articles. The deal converts the previous subscription agreement to one based on OA.
Jisc and Springer Nature will also continue to work together to evaluate the agreement and gather evidence to inform the transition to open access.
The new agreement improved compliance with funder policies with 99.8% of all articles published with Creative Commons ‘Attribution’ licence (CC BY). The deal anticipates a further increase in the percentage of UK research being published open access in the eligible journals from 74% in 2018 to closer to 100% by 2020. Achieving this within the costs negotiated will demonstrate the value of a national agreement and save institutions time and money.
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