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<p class="MsoNormal">*<b>With apologies for cross posting</b>*<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">To all members of this group,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We thought that the announcement regarding Springer Nature’s agreement with Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) to deliver the first ever transformative agreement (TA) for Nature and Nature-branded journals, may be of interest to you.
<a href="https://group.springernature.com/gp/group/media/press-releases/landmark-agreement-between-springer-nature-and-mpdl/18498782">
More on the announcement can be found here.</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Building on the nationwide Projekt DEAL agreement concluded last January for Springer Nature journals, the commercial framework agreed with MPDL will now be offered to German institutions, in time for a January 2021 start.
<span style="color:black">The TA, which will run for four years, enables authors affiliated with participating institutions to publish their research articles accepted for publication in
<i>Nature</i> and <span style="background:white">Nature-branded research journals</span> immediately open access at no cost to them. Participating institutions will also gain read access to the complete Nature portfolio, including Nature Review titles and all
forthcoming Nature-branded journals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">This is an incredibly exciting development for us and MPDL as it marks the first step for the Nature portfolio on its path to gold OA and the first TA for a portfolio of highly selective journals
(that also publish a significant amount of non-primary research content).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">With all best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Katie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#486A7E;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#486A7E;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">German institutions to benefit from first Transformative Agreement for Nature<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#486A7E;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Landmark agreement between Springer Nature and Max Planck Digital Library creates a route to open access for prestigious Nature research journals<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#486A7E;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Berlin | Munich | London<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#444444;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Springer Nature and the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) have agreed an approach that will deliver the first ever transformative agreement (TA) for Nature and Nature-branded journals.
Building on the nationwide Projekt DEAL agreement concluded last January for Springer Nature journals, the commercial framework agreed with MPDL will now be offered to German institutions, in time for a January 2021 start.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#444444;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The transformative agreement, which will run for four years, enables authors affiliated with participating institutions to publish their research articles accepted for publication in Nature
and Nature-branded research journals immediately open access at no cost to them. Participating institutions will also gain read access to the complete Nature portfolio, including Nature Review titles and all forthcoming Nature-branded journals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#444444;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The parties, who have collaborated since the first iterations of transformative agreements (Springer Compact) on ever more impactful agreements to transition, have agreed this framework
in the joint knowledge that TAs are the fastest pathway to transition to open access. With the vast majority of authors taking advantage of the open publication services secured for them with TA, Springer Nature’s existing transformative agreements, with author
take up reaching over 90%, play a crucial role in supporting countries in making the research they have funded immediately and openly accessible to all. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#444444;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The Springer Nature - DEAL agreement signed last January was the world’s largest by volume to date and is expected to enable open publication of around 13,000 German research articles a
year. The volume of OA articles achieved with transformative agreements, combined with the fact that OA articles are downloaded on average four times more than non-OA articles and cited 1.6 times more, means even greater reach and impact for German researchers
and German-funded research.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#444444;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The Nature framework is based on a tiered price structure; in line with current subscription expenditure levels and taking into account the vastly different holdings and equally different
publishing outputs of each participating institution. The terms provide for:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Open access publishing of all research articles accepted for publication in Nature and Nature research journals by affiliated authors<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#444444;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Comprehensive reading access to all Nature subscription titles, including Nature Review titles<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#444444;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Reading access to all new future Nature titles and OA publishing in new launches<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#444444;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Reallocation of the vast proportion of reading fees into support for open access publishing based on a cost of €9,500 per article<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#444444;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Frank Vrancken Peeters, Chief Executive of Springer Nature, said: “We are delighted that, following our agreement earlier this year with Projekt DEAL, we have been able to reach such a
groundbreaking moment with the Max Planck Digital Library, a valued partner in our transition to open access. This transformative agreement will enable hundreds of authors across Germany to publish their research in Nature knowing that it will be open and
accessible to all from the moment of publication. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#444444;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">“Publishing far fewer articles compared with the number of submissions they evaluate, with hundreds of dedicated in-house professional editors personally guiding authors through the peer
review process, and providing news, information and context on the major scientific stories of the day, Nature and the Nature-branded research journals are unlike any other journals. Finding such a realistic transitional model with MPDL marks an exciting
development in the history of our flagship journal.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#444444;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Prof. Klaus Blaum, Vice President of the Max Planck Society’s Scientific Council for Chemistry, Physics and Technology, commented: “Having the opportunity to publish original research articles
openly in such a highly selective and reputable journal as Nature will be an enormous opportunity for scientists in Germany, but an even greater benefit for researchers everywhere who will be able to learn from and build on their findings, accelerating the
very process of the advancement of science.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#444444;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Ralf Schimmer, Head of Information at the Max Planck Digital Library, commented: “We are extremely proud of having reached agreement on a realistic approach for transitioning high profile
journals like Nature to open access that confirms the founding principle of the Open Access 2020 Initiative. By restructuring the financial streams around scholarly publishing, we can liberate journals from subscription-based paywalls for the benefit of science
and society.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">OA publishing of primary research for authors at the participating institutions in Nature and the Nature-branded research journals that did not previously offer an OA option. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#444444;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Reading access to Nature, the Nature branded research journals, and the Nature Review Journals, existing and new.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#444444;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Core components of the agreement:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Reallocation of the vast proportion of reading fees into support for open access publishing based on a cost of €9,500 per article<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#444444;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Continued reading fee to cover non-primary content and journals which do not publish primary research<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#444444;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Future plans for Nature OA</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#444444;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#444444;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Transformative agreements of this sort are unlikely to be suitable for all funders and consortia and can take time to negotiate. Springer Nature is developing further OA options for Nature
and the Nature-branded research journals that will enable authors around the world wishing to publish OA to do so for papers submitted from January 2021. Information on this will be announced later in the year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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