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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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
<span style="color:black">most internationally renowned medical titles into the contract that 104 UK universities currently subscribe to.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:26.0pt;color:black">Jisc and Springer Nature extend commitment to open access publishing
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">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
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">Jisc and </span><a href="https://www.springernature.com/gp"><b><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:#005C80">Springer Nature</span></b></a><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black"> 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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">Caren Milloy</span></b><span style="font-family:Roboto">,
<span style="color:black">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.”</span><br>
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<b><span style="color:black">Steven Inchcoombe</span></b><span style="color:black">, 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.”</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">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. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">The agreement will use the existing Compact workflows which provide a streamlined, efficient and funder compliant route to OA publishing.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">This agreement is an extension to the UK Springer Compact agreement
</span><a href="https://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/jisc-and-springer-nature-renew-transformational-deal-26-apr-2019"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">outlined here.</span></a><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black"> 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.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">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 </span><a href="https://www.springernature.com/gp/librarians/products/journals/academic-journals-on-nature-com"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:#1155CC">AJ journals on nature.com</span></a><span style="font-family:Roboto"> ,
<span style="color:black">which includes some of the world's most prestigious medical and scientific titles.
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<h1><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">About Jisc</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
Jisc’s vision is for the UK to be the most digitally advanced education and research nation in the world. At its heart is the super-fast national research and education network, Janet, with built-in cyber security protection. Jisc also provides technology
solutions for its members (colleges, universities and research centres) and customers (public sector bodies), helps members save time and money by negotiating sector-wide deals and provides advice and practical assistance on digital technology. Jisc is funded
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">For more information, contact
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:faye.holst@jisc.ac.uk"><b><span style="color:black">faye.holst@jisc.ac.uk</span></b></a><span style="color:black">, or call 07443 983571.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h4><a name="_heading=h.a8pjpaay7iu4"></a><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">About Springer Nature
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">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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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">As a research publisher, Springer Nature is home to trusted brands including Springer, Nature Research, BMC, Palgrave Macmillan and Scientific American. Springer
Nature is also a leading educational and professional publisher, providing quality content through a range of innovative platforms, products and services. Every day, around the globe, our imprints, books, journals and resources reach millions of people.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">For more information, please visit springernature.com and @SpringerNature or contact Susie Winter at
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