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Springer Nature open-access deal struck for Spanish universities

Ninety per cent of Spanish research will come under the deal, according to publisher

Springer Nature has signed a four-year contract with Spanish institutions, enabling the 58 universities affiliated with the national rectors’ conference, Crue, and the Spanish National Research Council to publish openly accessible articles in more than 2,300 of the publisher’s journals.

These institutions are collectively responsible for over 90 per cent of Spain’s scientific research, Springer Nature said when it announced the deal on 5 May.

“This agreement will further enable the world’s students, scholars and scientists to read, share, use and reuse Spanish-funded research on a global scale,” the publisher said.

Crue’s vice-president and the head of its open-science working group, Francisco Mora, said the deal “consolidates a clear commitment by Spanish universities and of the [research council] for free access” to scholarly outputs.

Springer Nature said it has now made 14 such national ‘transformative agreements’—shifting national consortia from subscription to open-access publishing—and that this is more than any other publisher.