PROJEKT DEAL and SPRINGER NATURE reach understanding on world´s largest transformative Open Access agreement

« (…) A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed today between MPDL Services, on behalf of Projekt DEAL, and Springer Nature sets the scene for the world’s most comprehensive open access (OA) agreement to be finalised later this year.
Reaching such an understanding has been possible through acknowledgement of the common commitment of both parties to the principle of open science: Projekt DEAL’s vision and enablement of open access to German research on a large-scale and Springer Nature’s position as the largest OA publisher and their expertise as a pioneer of transformative deals. The agreement is expected to see well over 13,000 articles a year from German researchers published OA, meaning they will be freely and universally available for the world’s students, scholars and scientists to read, share, use and reuse from the moment of publication. (…) »

source > hrk.de, 22 aout 2019

• Mots-clés : 
• Accès à l'information,
• Allemagne,
• Open Access,
• Project DEAL,
• Springer Nature