Springer Nature and the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) have announced a three-year Transformative Agreement (TA) that will allow researchers at more than 400 institutions in Brazil to read and publish an average of 6,000 articles per year as open access.
The press release explains that the contract will run from January 1 2026, to the end of 2028 and applies to the Springer hybrid journal portfolio. Under the agreement, about 6,000 articles per year from over 400 institutions will be published with open access, reinforcing Brazil’s leadership in promoting open access and demonstrating a commitment by CAPES and Springer Nature to create a sustainable TA framework.
The announcement notes that Brazil produces more than half of Latin America’s research output, so the deal is expected to increase the visibility and accessibility of Brazilian scientific production.
Both parties expanded a pilot project begun two years ago that would have provided only 30 percent coverage; through collaboration and dialogue, they developed a model aimed at advancing open science in a sustainable, scalable way. In their joint statement, they indicated that transformative agreements are effective drivers of the transition to open access and that this arrangement demonstrates their shared approach to identifying pathways to open science.
Enabling researchers across more than 400 institutions to publish and read without limits is expected to strengthen Brazil’s position in open science and enhance regional and global scientific collaboration.
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