Springer Nature announced last week that it has agreed a new transformative agreement (TA) with the Seoul National University (SNU). The agreement marks the first TA for SNU, which is also being supported by its Office of Research Affairs(1) and SNU Hospital in South Korea.
Springer Nature says the agreement, going live in January 2024, will enable over 30,000 researchers affiliated with SNU to benefit from the increased visibility of their work that comes with publishing OA, as well as expanding their options for interdisciplinary collaboration with researchers worldwide.
Carrie Webster, vice president open access, Springer Nature said: “Springer Nature’s Transformative Agreements are structured to meet individual customer needs. We are delighted to have come to this agreement with SNU to support South Korea’s path to a fully open science environment. Our TAs now support researchers from over 3,500 institutions across six continents and continue to prove themselves as the most effective sustainable way to achieve OA growth and transition at scale.”
SNU-affiliated researchers will be able to publish OA at no extra cost to them in over 2,000 Springer Nature journals, added the publisher. In addition, the agreement also extends SNU’s access research published in the Adis and Palgrave journals alongside Springer and Academic Journals.
More on the publisher’s commitment to the transition to OA can be found here, and the impact of its OA portfolio in its recent OA report.
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