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Library - Read and Publish Agreements SANLIC : Springer Nature 2023-2025

Springer Read & Publish 2023-2025

 

This is a three-year transformational read and publish agreement (2023-2025) for the Springer Compact collection, which includes all hybrid and closed journals in Springer, Adis, Palgrave and Nature Academic journals, but excludes the Nature Research journals and all fully open access journals.

Nature Research is a separate agreement in ConsortiaManager.

The offer includes:

  • Read access (back to 1997) to approximately 2 424 journals.
  • Eligible authors (that is, those affiliated to participating SANLiC members) will be published under an immediate, open-access license in hybrid journals (approximately 2 260 titles) without having to pay article processing charges (APCs).

Note: 

  • fully Open Access Springer Nature journals, including BioMed Central journals, are excluded from the offer.
  • There is no discount for publishing in fully OA journals.

Article entitlement: this is capped for three years as shown below:

 

 

South Africa

Botswana

Namibia

TOTAL

Year

2023

Article Allowance

938

12

5

955

 

Corridor (10%)

94

1

1

96

 

Effective Cap

1 032

13

6

1 051

2024

Article Allowance

957

12

5

974

 

Corridor (10%)

96

1

1

98

 

Effective Cap

1 053

13

6

1 072

2025

Article Allowance

976

12

5

993

 

Corridor (10%)

98

1

1

100

 

Effective Cap

1 074

13

6

1 093