To accelerate the transition to Open Access, we proactively promote the benefits of OA to increase uptake, and offer innovative agreement solutions to support any author who wishes to publish in our journals, regardless of their funding situation. We also want to ensure that all authors wishing to publish with us are able to comply where funding regulations require research be made immediately open access upon publication, as is the case with a Plan S funder's grant. Springer Nature offers the following routes to compliant open access:
- Transformative Journals: enabling immediate OA options for primary research, including for Nature and the Nature research journals.
- Fully OA Journals: over 600 titles across Springer Nature imprints
- Transformative Agreements: collaborating with funders/institutions to enable centralised funding for OA payments for authors in participating/eligible institutions
In some cases your author may need to consult with the funder regarding additional actions they need to make to ensure they meet requirements.
Find out more through our support pages and to download our full list of compliant journals.