22 August 2019
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between MPDL Services, on behalf of Projekt DEAL, and Springer Nature, with the final contract to be concluded later this year.
Through the agreement, more than 13,000 articles by German scholars and scientists are expected to be published open access (OA) per year, making them freely and immediately available. The organisation of costs and services under this agreement means researchers and students across all disciplines affiliated with the member institutions will be able to publish OA in the majority of the Springer Nature journal portfolio – around 2,500 Springer Nature hybrid and fully OA journals, as well as read the full contents of those journals including backfiles from 1997.