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Update (July 27, 2022): Springer Nature and the University of California announced today that they have extended their original agreement through 2024, and that it will now include Nature journals as well as the rest of Springer Nature's portfolio.
Today (June 16), the University of California and the academic publisher Springer Nature announced that they had forged the largest open-access deal in North America to date.
“We’re quite delighted about this agreement, because we think it is very significant,” says Ivy Anderson, the associate executive director of the California Digital Library and co-chair of UC’s publisher negotiation team. “It shows that a large, research-intensive institution can sign an agreement with a large publisher for open access and make that successful.”
Over the last few years, universities and research institutions around the world have been pushing publishers for agreements ...
