[Eril-l] News: UK universities and Springer Nature extend commitment to open access publishing

[Faye Holst]

Hi,

“* With apologies for cross posting*

Here’s a news announcement that might be of interest to your group. We expect librarians to be very happy with this news as it will bring some of the world’s most internationally renowned medical titles into the contract that 104 UK universities currently subscribe to.

This news is embargoed till Wednesday 20 January 00.01AM.

Best wishes,

Faye


Jisc and Springer Nature extend  commitment to open access publishing
UK Springer Compact Agreement extends to 2022 and will now include the publisher’s Academic Journals (AJs) on nature.com enhancing OA offering to the research community

Jisc and Springer Nature<https://www.springernature.com/gp> have extended the UK Compact agreement by including the prestigious Academic Journals (AJs) on nature.com which includes some of the world’s most internationally renowned medical titles. The extension of the transformative agreement demonstrates both Jisc and Springer Nature’s commitment to ensuring authors can publish their research open access (OA) from the point of publication, supporting wider accessibility whilst also managing the costs of access and open access (OA) publishing.

Caren Milloy, director of licensing at Jisc, said: “The extension and expansion of this agreement to include the AJs reflects the mutual commitment of UK universities and Springer Nature to open access and the successful embedding of centrally managed OA agreements. This contract will enable researchers to increase the number of articles they can publish OA whilst reducing exposure to additional spend, making UK research more accessible and more sustainable - which in these times is absolutely essential.”

Steven Inchcoombe, chief publishing and solutions officer at Springer Nature: “Partnerships and agreements such as this are key in being able to better support the drive towards and enable greater sustainable OA options for our research communities. The value of open research and its impact on society has never been more keenly needed or underscored. With the extension of this agreement to include all our other Academic Journals, we are confident that together with Jisc we will be able to support and enable real progress in advancing open science.”

The combined  Springer and Academic Journals compact agreement will run from January 2021 to December 2022. 104 UK universities currently subscribe to the Compact agreement with several new institutions joining the agreement this year. 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 which provide a streamlined, efficient and funder compliant route to OA publishing.

Jisc supports UK universities and research institutions in negotiating transformative agreements with publishers. – large and small. Over 50% of all UK research output is covered by a Jisc-negotiated transformative agreement.

Notes to editors
This agreement is an extension to the UK Springer Compact agreement outlined here.<https://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/jisc-and-springer-nature-renew-transformational-deal-26-apr-2019> The agreement builds on the Jisc/Springer arrangement which manages the costs of publishing UK articles open access (OA) while maintaining access to all of Springer’s subscription articles.

Springer Nature journals in the agreement include all 2200+ hybrid and subscription journals under the Springer brand (available for open access publishing and reading) and now also includes the 38 AJ journals on nature.com<https://www.springernature.com/gp/librarians/products/journals/academic-journals-on-nature-com> , which includes some of the world's most prestigious medical and scientific titles.

ENDS

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For more than 175 years, Springer Nature has been advancing discovery by providing the best possible service to the whole research community. We help researchers uncover new ideas, support librarians and institutions with innovations in technology and data, and provide quality publishing support to societies.  We make sure all the research we publish is significant, robust and stands up to objective scrutiny, that it reaches all relevant audiences in the best possible format, and can be discovered, accessed, used, re-used and shared.
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