Open Access Publishing: Trends and Transformation Ruth Wilson, Publishing Director, Nature Journals

8th April - Virtual Library of Science

Warsaw University

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Overview

• Introduction to Springer Nature • Open research at Springer Nature • Accelerating the transition to open access • Plan S • Questions

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Accelerating the transition to open access

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Transformative deals can achieve real progress in advancing open access – UK case study

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74% of articles with UK corresponding authors published in Springer Nature’s mathematics titles in 2017 were gold OA, up from 8% in 2013. 80% of articles with UK corresponding authors published in Springer Nature’s humanities titles in 2017 were gold OA, up from 10% in 2013.”

Source: Gold Open Access in the UK: Springer Nature’s Transition

Transformative deals can achieve real progress in advancing open access – UK case study

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OA funds by world region Formal OA funding is concentrated in Europe

Source: Springer Nature OA funding & policy database

Our knowledge of OA funding is less comprehensive outside of Europe and North America, due to difficulties of language barriers and less formal OA funding structures

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Advantages of open access for authors

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Thankyou and Questions!