Partnership with Max Planck Society Marks Springer Nature’s Largest Open Access Book Deal to Date

From a Springer Nature Announcement:

Springer Nature has signed its largest institutional OA book deal with the Max Planck Society through the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL). The agreement covers all Springer Nature book imprints, across a broad range of disciplines, providing OA funding to affiliated authors from over 80 Max Planck Institutes.

This agreement marks the fifth OA book partnership¹ and the second² and largest national OA book deal for the publisher to date³ – a pivotal step in driving forward the sustainable transition to OA for book authors.

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The initial three-year agreement, live as of 1st January 2022, will enable authors from all 86 Max Planck Institutes to receive a discount on the standard Book Publishing Charge (BPC) to publish their book OA. MPDL will contribute central funding toward the coverage of the discounted BPC, lowering the costs for authors even further. The discount and funding will be available across all of the publisher’s book imprints, under a CC BY licence, ensuring their work is freely accessible and discoverable to all communities across science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences. They will be available to readers around the world via Springer Nature’s content platform SpringerLink.

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Additional Information: MPDL Open Access Books Partnership Agreement

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