Jeffrey BrainardThe University of California (UC) system today announced it has signed the biggest open access deal in North America with one of the largest commercial scientific publishers.
The agreement with Springer Nature includes a commitment by the publisher to explore making all articles that UC corresponding authors publish in the Nature family of journals immediately free to read upon publication starting in 2022.The new deal is notable, in part, because it includes Nature, one of the world’s most prominent journals, as well as highly selective sister titles in the Nature Research group, which total 148 journals.