Springer Nature has announced its latest transformative agreement (TA), with Italy’s National Research Council (CNR), and also announces the renewal of TAs with the Austrian Academic Library Consortium in Austria and the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU). With the first TA in Egypt with Government support, and its first in Canada and Latin America, announced in the last two months, Springer Nature continues to demonstrate its commitment to driving forward sustainable open research for all, across all economies. This enables researchers from over 2,650 affiliated institutions to publish open access, double that of any other publisher.
Springer Nature’s TA with CNR - Italy’s largest public research institute - is the publisher’s second in Italy. This three-year agreement will see authors in CNR’s 88 research institutes be able to publish OA in over 2,300 Springer, Adis, and Palgrave Hybrid journals, as well as have full access to all subscription journal content.
Alongside the new agreement in Italy, the start of 2022 has also seen the renewal of agreements in Austria and the Netherlands. The agreement with the Austrian Academic Library Consortium in Austria is entering its seventh year with an extension to 2023 and includes the addition of nine new institutions. The agreement with the Association of Universities (VSNU), Netherlands, now enters its eighth year with an extension through 2022.
Through outreach such as TAs with global partners, Springer Nature continues to support all authors regardless of discipline, location, or funding, to publish OA. The publisher’s 17 national agreements, which alongside its institutional deals, now support researchers from over 2,650 affiliated institutions to publish OA, enabling an expected 41,400+ OA articles to be published a year, 10% more than any other publisher. Last year, the publisher was the first to immediately publish one million gold open access primary research and review articles, supporting nearly 2.5 million authors in making their research OA.
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