Springer Nature has agreed to multiple new transformative agreements (TA), which will significantly expand the global reach and support for OA publishing and increase the momentum internationally for open science. These latest agreements extend Springer Nature's support for OA across America, Asia, Europe, and Africa.
Since the publisher pioneered the concept of TAs in 2015, these agreements have proven to be the fastest, most sustainable way to enable the OA transition. These bespoke agreements, structured to meet individual customer needs, now support researchers from over 3450 institutions worldwide publishing OA.
These agreements were instrumental to Springer Nature’s over 1700 transformative journals publishing 40% more OA articles in 2021 than 2020. As such, the latest TAs are expected to further accelerate the global transition to OA by ensuring affiliated researchers benefit from the higher usage reach and impact that OA has been proven to achieve and that the high-quality research is reusable, shareable and discoverable to the world's scholarly community immediately upon publication.
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