Open Access

German institutions to benefit from first transformative agreement for Nature starting in 2021 more

Springer Nature and MPDL Services GmbH on behalf of Projekt DEAL today announce that the formal contract for the world’ largest transformative Open Access (OA) agreement to date has been signed. more

Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed today in Berlin; final contract to be concluded later this year. more

In his guest contribution for the Tagespiegel newspaper, Martin Stratmann pleads for open access to become the rule in scientific publishing. This is essential for both research and innovation - and, as studies show, it can be achieved without additional financial resources. more

A new approach should give a fresh boost to Open Access, the unrestricted online access to scholarly research articles. This is the result of an international conference in Berlin, where a process was initiated to transform subscription journals to Open Access. The key to this lies in the hands of the scientific institutions and their sponsors: Public resources that are currently spent on journal subscriptions would have to be converted into open-access publishing funds. more