The agreement Springer Nature is touting with the University of California is an extension of its 2020 arrangement for research articles. In 2021, Springer Nature reports, this shared-funding approach resulted in a three-fold increase in University of California open-access articles in Springer Nature’s group of more than 2,200 hybrid journals and more than 500 Springer Nature fully open-access journals. The University of California, Springer Nature’s media messaging says, is now on track for an even greater number of open access articles to be published in 2022. The scope of the agreement includes Nature, the Nature research journals, Nature Communications, and Scientific Reports. More on Springer Nature is here, more on open access is here, and more on scholarly and academic publishing is here.

Source: CNN August 10, 2022 13:11 UTC