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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>*With apologies for cross posting*<o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Today Springer Nature announces its four year transformative agreement (TA) with IReL, a nationally funded e-resource licensing consortium of publicly funded Irish higher educational institutions.
This new deal, the 13th for Springer Nature, deepens the publishers’ commitment to open science by supporting an increasing number of regions and researchers to publish OA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Full press release below.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#486A7E">Springer Nature increases the number of its national Transformative Agreements to 13 with its first agreement in Ireland</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">London | 1<sup>st</sup> April 2021</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Springer Nature and IReL, a nationally funded e-resource licensing consortium of publicly funded Irish higher educational institutions, have agreed a four year transformative agreement
(TA). This new deal, the 13th for Springer Nature - more than any other publisher, gives publications from researchers across Ireland increased global reach. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://group.springernature.com/gp/group/media/press-releases/springer-nature-transformative-agreements/18311262"><span style="color:#1155CC">Research shows</span></a><span style="color:black">
that TAs are the fastest way to enable the OA transition as they enable more authors to publish OA. This is because TA’s offer authors an easy way to comply with funders’ OA requirements whilst enabling participating institutions to better manage the cost
and administration of OA by combining journal subscription (read) access along with OA publication costs (APCs). In countries where Springer Nature has a TA, up to
</span><a href="https://group.springernature.com/gp/group/media/press-releases/springer-nature-transformative-agreements/18311262"><span style="color:#1155CC">90% of Springer Nature content
</span></a><span style="color:black">is now published via gold OA. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">This announcement means that associated researchers from IReL member institutions and research bodies can publish OA in Springer Nature’s portfolio of
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#444444;background:white">over 2,300 titles
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">including Palgrave, Adis,
<span style="background:white">Open Choice and</span> the Academic Journals on nature.com. With their work freely and universally available from the point of publication, it will enable the world’s students, scholars and scientists to read, share, use and
reuse Irish-funded research on a global scale.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#444444;background:white">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Eligible researchers from IReL institutions will also have full access to all Springer, Palgrave, Academic Journals on nature.com and Adis subscription journal content. The agreement
is expected to see over 350 articles a year from researchers in Ireland published OA, and will run for four years up to 31 December 2024.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Speaking of the agreement Dagmar Laging, Vice President, Institutional Sales Europe, Springer Nature said: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">“We remain focused on enabling a growing number of global researchers to publish OA, and support academic collaboration, discoverability and usability at scale. Our deal with the
IReL consortium is a clear example of that. By supporting an increasing number of regions on their path to a fully OA environment, we continue to deepen our commitment to a truly open science future, one which we believe is key to advancing scientific discovery
and progress, delivering real life benefits for the whole world.”</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Jack Hyland, the IReL Manager, said:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">“We are delighted to agree this deal with Springer Nature, which will overnight make most new works by Irish researchers and authors published by Springer Nature immediately open access
upon publication and contribute to the global body of research advancing academia and discovery.”</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Through its wider commitment to the principles and drive for open science, Springer Nature continues to enable a sustainable transition to OA for all authors regardless of discipline,
location or funding. Springer Nature has in place more national TA’s than any other publisher, including the world’s largest by volume of articles with </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://group.springernature.com/gp/group/media/press-releases/springer-nature-and-deal-reach-mou-on-largest-oa-agreement/17090258"><span style="color:#1D819B">Projekt
DEAL</span></a><span style="color:black"> in Germany. Springer Nature </span><a href="https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-access-fact-sheet/17740280"><span style="color:#1155CC">published over 124,000 articles via gold OA
</span></a><span style="color:black">in 2020 accounting for 33% of all content published. The publisher continues to drive forward routes to OA through new books and journals, including the
</span><a href="https://group.springernature.com/gb/group/media/press-releases/springer-nature-seeks-views-on-new-approach/16707864"><span style="color:#1155CC">launch and introduction
</span></a><span style="color:black">of and now </span><a href="https://group.springernature.com/gb/group/media/press-releases/springer-nature-plan-s/17877246"><span style="color:#1155CC">commitment of its portfolio</span></a><span style="color:black"> to
</span><a href="https://group.springernature.com/gp/group/media/press-releases/springer-nature-plan-s/17877246"><span style="color:#1D819B"> transformative journals.</span></a><span style="color:black"> Driving the opening up of research and the
</span><a href="https://www.springernature.com/gp/advancing-discovery/blog/blogposts/partnerships-to-gain-trust-and-advance-open-science/18767374"><span style="color:#1155CC">development of open science
</span></a><span style="color:black">remains Springer Nature’s primary focus in serving the research community. More information on the publisher’s approach can be found </span><a href="https://www.springernature.com/gp/advancing-discovery/opening-up-research"><span style="color:#1D819B">here.</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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