Springer Nature and Jisc have extended the UK Compact agreement by including the prestigious Academic Journals (AJs) on nature.com that includes some of the world’s most internationally renowned medical titles. The extension of the transformative agreement demonstrates both Springer Nature and Jisc's commitment to ensuring authors can publish their research open access (OA) from the point of publication, supporting wider accessibility while also managing the costs of access to OA publishing.
The combined Springer and Academic Journals compact agreement will run from January 2021 to December 2022. Jisc members that have an ongoing Nature journals agreement will have their spend reduced with the move of the Academic Journals to the transformative agreement.
104 UK universities currently subscribe to the Compact agreement with several new institutions joining the agreement in 2021. In 2020, 4674 articles were accepted for OA publication. With new members and additional journals for both publishing and reading access, it is expected that publishing, participation and usage of UK funded research will continue to increase in 2021.
The agreement will use the existing Compact workflows that provide a streamlined, efficient and funder compliant route to OA publishing.
Jisc supports UK universities and research institutions in negotiating transformative agreements with publishers. Over 50% of all UK research output is covered by a Jisc-negotiated transformative agreement.
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