French research consortium inks deal with Springer Nature

But consortium member CNRS turns terms down again

Seventeen members of the Couperin consortium, a collective representing major French higher education and research institutions, have signed a deal with the scientific publisher Springer Nature for open-access publication and journal access.

However, the CNRS, France’s largest research agency, is not a signatory to the deal. This continues the precedent set in 2018 when the CNRS rejected the previous deal with the publisher negotiated by Couperin.