The University of Oregon entered into a publishing agreement with academic publishing company Springer Nature in May, joining other universities in the Big Ten Academic Alliance in open access for academic articles.
The two-year agreement allows UO faculty, students and staff to publish an unlimited number of articles in Springer Nature’s hybrid journals, free of article processing charges, which are fees that are paid by authors when an academic article is published. Hybrid journals combine the traditional subscription-based academic journal model with an option for open access publication.
“This agreement eliminates those individual (processing charges) and provides full reading access to over 2,200 journals across Springer, Palgrave Macmillan, Adis and academic journals on nature.com,” Esohe Yamasaki, head of communications at Springer Nature, said in an email statement…