What are the benefits of Springer Nature’s Transformative Agreements?

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By: Diana Petrowicz, Mon Oct 19 2020
Diana Petrowicz

Author: Diana Petrowicz

In 2014, Springer Nature began pioneering transformative agreements with our customers. Since then we have established strong partnerships and a clear workflow and as of October 2020, now have 12 Transformative Agreements in place, with many more to come. Our ‘Read and Publish’ (Springer Compact) agreements comprise of over 2,200 hybrid journals and are supported by Plan S. These agreements support the transition to a transparent and sustainable OA publishing environment, enabling partners to combine journal subscription access along with OA article processing charges (APCs).

We talked to Natalia Timiraos, Director, Partner Engagement OA and Chris Pym, Senior Institutional Engagement Manager at Springer Nature about the benefits of Transformative Agreements for librarians, and the workflow to transition to them.


How would you explain Transformative Agreements and their benefits?


What does transparent OA publishing environment mean? How does it work in practice at Springer Nature?


Could you please explain how the implementation process and APC support work in practice?


Tell us about the work of the OA team you are part of? How has it changed since you started out?


Can you tell us a little about the evolution of the Transformative Agreement at Springer Nature – from the early adopters to how it’s developing now?


To keep up to date on current Springer Nature’s open access agreements and find further information around our open access models, click here.


Diana Petrowicz

Author: Diana Petrowicz

Diana Petrowicz is a Marketing Manager in the Sales Enablement team, based in the London office. Supporting the Sales and Account Development teams, she is enthusiastic about finding innovate ways to communicate with the library community and specialises in producing and writing case studies across the portfolio.