Springer Nature is seeking views on a new approach aimed at accelerating the transition to open access. In a recently published blog, Springer Nature sets out a new approach with the goal of increasing the demand from authors to immediately publish their research open access (OA) and growing the supply of journals able to publish OA, potentially enabling even highly selective journals such as Nature to transition to OA.
It is expected that this new approach would see publishers move from generally being passive enablers of open access to being active drivers of the transition to OA. Views are being sought on the proposed new publishing standard - Transformative Publishing - which encompasses two main elements: ‘Transformative’ read and publish deals and Transformative journals.
Transformative read and publish deals are already proven to accelerate the transition to OA by significantly increasing OA take up. Transformative Publishers would commit to offer them where institutions, consortia or research funding bodies wish to use them and to scale them when in place.
Publishers would commit to adapt the hybrid and subscription journals that they own so that, by complying with the required standard and set of requirements, Transformative journals would be 100 percent OA for primary research articles at the end of the transition.
Ultimately, transformative publishers would move to being at the forefront of measuring, reporting on, and promoting the benefits of OA and be required to commit to continuously increase the average level of OA take-up across its whole journal portfolio, at least at the rate of funding from research funding bodies, institutions and consortia.
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