Huge open-access journal deal inked by University of California and Springer Nature https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/huge-open-access-journal-deal-inked-university-california-and-springer-nature > The University of California (UC) system today announced it has signed the > biggest open-access (OA) deal in North America with one of the largest > commercial scientific publishers. The agreement with Springer Nature includes > a commitment by the publisher to explore making all articles that UC > corresponding authors publish in the Nature family of journals immediately > free to read on publication starting in 2022. > > The new deal is notable, in part, because it includes Nature, one of the > world’s most prominent journals, as well as highly selective sister titles in > the Nature Research group, which total 148 journals. “These flagship journals > are the hardest nut to crack [for OA], and this is the first big step > forward, we think worldwide, in doing so,” says Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, > university librarian at UC Berkeley and co-chair of UC’s publisher > negotiation team.
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