DEAL-SpringerNature contract  [10.07.20]

On 8 January 2020, a contract between the DEAL project and Springer Nature was signed that came into force retroactively on 1 January 2020 (https://www.projekt-deal.de/). A 3-year contract (2020 - 2022) was concluded. The contract contains both the rights for reading access and the possibility of open access publishing (PAR contract, PAR = publish and read).

Open access publishing:

• From 1 Jan 2020, Hohenheim authors will be able to publish in around 1,900 Springer subscription journals (open choice) with Open Access. The reference date is the online publication date of the article. These fees are centrally funded by the University of Hohenheim, and the publications are free of charge for the individual authors.

• From 1 August 2020, publications by Hohenheim authors will be available in currently around 600 original Springer Nature Open Access journals (= Fully Open Access, including all BioMed Central journals) be published. The Article Processing Charge (APC) of all Springer Open and BioMed Central title will receive a 20% discount is granted. This discount is not valid for Nature Communications and Scientific Reports. The publication fees for the journals are initially charged centrally to the university. SpringerNature in its communication with scientists*, due to the central invoicing of all publications as free of charge dar. This is so not right. The Fully Open Access fees are will be charged to the authors (analogous to the DEAL Wiley contract). Until 1 August 2020, the invoice will be sent directly to the authors.
  
  

• Springer has drawn up a final list which clearly indicates whether the journal is a hybrid journal (Open Choice) or a pure Open Access journal (Fully Open Access). Scientists and scholars can also check here whether fees are passed on to them if necessary

• The license for the individual articles is CC-BY, for a few journals it is CC-BY-NC (https://creativecommons.org/).

You can find further information here.

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