Open Access Publishing Agreements: Springer

This agreement gives current staff and students at participating institutions the ability to make their articles open access without the author paying an article processing charge (APC). This applies to articles accepted for publication in eligible Springer Nature journals. Further details below.

Agreement period: 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025.

OA quota per year: 427 articles (shared among participating institutions).

When the fund is fully spent each year, the author OA workflow will be suspended so authors will not be informed of the agreement on acceptance. 

More than 2,000 Springer hybrid journals.
Check the list of hybrid journals that are included in the agreement here.
The list of all journals (including Springer) in IReL open access agreements.

Eligible authors: the corresponding author must be a current staff member or student of a participating institution at the time the article is accepted for publication. Requests for OA are subject to approval by participating institutions.

Eligible article types: Original Paper, Review Paper, Brief Communication, Continuing Education.

OA publishing license: CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-NC 4.0. Eligible Authors will retain copyright in the Eligible Article, subject to certain exceptions (including, but not limited to, articles published in Non-Standard Journals, or if requested by the author, and/or otherwise required by law or third parties (such as funding bodies).

Agreement page on springer.com.
Springer Author guide.