Frank Vrancken Peeters, Chief Commercial Officer of Springer Nature, said: “Springer Nature has been a pioneer in transformation agreements since 2014. Since then, we have observed their impact on open access research and we now know that open access articles are more often cited, downloaded more often and have a wider and broader effect. That is why we believe they deserve the title of “transformative”, and that is why we are convinced that this agreement will allow greater visibility and use of German-funded research and, given its size, will significantly advance the overall goal of Open Science. The full and up-to-date list of Springer Nature magazines covered by the agreement is available here: keeper.mpdl.mpg.de/f/a6dc1e1ed4fc4becb194/?dl=1 magazine titles included in the Springer Nature portfolio as a result of the agreement will be automatically added. The author grants the publishing house certain rights to his material for the duration of the contract. These rights may include the right to publish, communicate and distribute online and to obtain sub-licenses. These rights are granted only to this publishing house. As long as the agreement exists, the author cannot grant the same rights to anyone. The duration of the agreement may vary, some agreements may be permanent or permanent. If the license contains the right of sub-license, the publisher may grant the rights granted to him to a third party, for example to allow another publishing house to publish the work in another field. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed today between MPDL Services on behalf of the DEAL project and Springer Nature is the terms of the world`s most comprehensive open access agreement, which is expected to be concluded before the end of the year. The two-part agreement will transform a full open access element and a Publish and Read (PAR) element. Legitimate authors will be able to publish Open Access in Springer Nature`s fully open access magazines, the world`s largest open access portfolio with more than 600 titles, and in Springer Nature`s collection with 1,900 hybrid magazines that already publish one in four open access articles. In addition, the academic community model of participating institutions provides permanent access to reading the content of Springer, Palgrave, Adis and Macmillan journals published during the term of the contract.
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