The agreement will enable authors at eligible German institutes to publish an estimated 400 open-access papers each year in Springer Nature journals from the Nature line of titles.

Last month, 10 UK universities became part of the UK Reproducibility Network, joining researchers, funders, journal publishers, and regulatory agencies.

The university and the publisher have been trying to forge a new licensing agreement for the last year.

In response to concerns from the research and publishing communities, the European group pushes back the deadline for its full and immediate open-access mandate to 2021.

The publisher failed to meet requests for better access to research, a consortium of Norwegian institutions says.

After negotiating for eight months, the University of California becomes one of the first research institutions in the US to stop paying for access to the publisher’s journals.

The three-year contract, in which all articles will be published as open access in exchange for an annual fee for journal subscriptions, is a triumph for Project DEAL.

Scientists are working to maximize the benefits and minimize the costs of sharing.

A funder-driven push for freely accessible scholarly literature has divided the scientific community.