This is a three-year read and publish agreement (2023-2025) for the Springer Compact collection with an annual increase above current subscription of 2%. The Springer Compact collection includes all hybrid and closed journals in Springer, Adis, Palgrave and Nature Academic journals but excludes the Nature Research journals and all fully open access journals.
- The combined read and publish fee is a 2% annual increase for three years on the current 2022 read only fee.
- The offer is limited to existing subscribers and is based on the assumption that all existing subscribers will participate (all members have indicated that they will participate).
- All subscribing members will have read access (from 1997) to the full Springer Compact collection (approximately 2 424 journals).
- All subscribing members will be able to publish under an immediate, open access license in hybrid and transformative journals (approximately 2 260) in the Springer Compact collection without having to pay any APCs up to an article cap.
- The article cap is set at our current estimated research output with a year-on-year growth of 2%.
- SANLiC members will share a pool of OA articles and the beneficiaries (UNAM and UBOT) will have separate pools (see table below).
- Once the cap is exceeded by 10%, further OA publishing in hybrid journals will incur list price APCs.
- Most of these journals publish open access content under a CC BY license. A few journals publish open access content under a CC BY-NC license as default.
- Members who do not currently subscribe to everything will enjoy extended read access (and OA publishing rights) to the complete Springer Compact collection without an increase in fees.
- The Nature Research journals are not covered by the transformative agreement. A separate read only agreement will apply to the Nature Research collection with a 2% annual increase for three years (2023-2025).
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