Springer Nature has been leading the way in enabling country-level flips to open access since 2014, when it pioneered its first transformative agreement (TA). Its latest national TA with Spain takes Springer Nature’s number of national TA’s to 14, 13 of which are in Europe. Springer Nature supports researchers from over 2,100 institutions, through it TAs.
This latest TA for Springer Nature, agreed with the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (Crue Universidades Españolas) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), demonstrates the publisher’s continuing contribution to driving OA and encouraging sustainable open science practices globally.
The agreement will enable the 58 affiliated Universities of Crue & CSIC, responsible for over 90% of scientific research production in Spain, to publish OA in Springer Nature’s portfolio of over 2,300 titles including the Adis titles. With their work freely and universally available from the point of publication, this agreement will further enable the world’s students, scholars and scientists to read, share, use and reuse Spanish-funded research on a global scale. Affiliated researchers from Crue & CSIC institutions will also have full access to all Springer and Adis subscription journal content. The agreement is expected to see over 2200 articles a year from researchers in Spain published OA, and will run for four years up to December 31, 2024.
Research shows that TAs are the fastest way to enable the OA transition as they enable more authors to publish OA. This is because TA’s offer authors an easy way to comply with funders’ OA requirements while enabling participating institutions to better manage the cost and administration of OA by combining journal subscription (read) access along with OA publication costs (APCs). In countries where Springer Nature has a TA, up to 90% of Springer Nature content is now published via gold OA. Through its wider commitment to the principles and drive for open science, Springer Nature continues to enable a sustainable transition to OA for all authors regardless of discipline, location or funding. Springer Nature has in place more national TA’s than any other publisher, including the highest number of agreements within Europe and the world’s largest by volume of articles with Projekt DEAL in Germany.
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