{"id":13218,"date":"2025-05-29T10:38:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T14:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=13218"},"modified":"2025-06-02T10:42:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T14:42:59","slug":"big-ten-academic-alliance-and-springer-nature-sign-landmark-open-access-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/2025\/05\/29\/big-ten-academic-alliance-and-springer-nature-sign-landmark-open-access-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Ten Academic Alliance and Springer Nature sign landmark open publishing agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) has signed a groundbreaking two-year Open Publishing Agreement with Springer Nature<\/a>\u2014marking the publisher\u2019s first unlimited, uncapped open access agreement in the Americas. This agreement is the BTAA\u2019s fifth Open Publishing Agreement and its most ambitious yet, significantly expanding publishing opportunities for researchers across participating institutions, including Purdue University. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under this new agreement, authors affiliated with participating BTAA member institutions can publish open access articles in Springer Nature\u2019s entire\u00a0hybrid journal portfolio<\/a>\u00a0without paying article processing charges. This includes over 2,200 journals published under the Springer, Palgrave Macmillan, and Adis imprints, as well as Academic Journals; it does not, however, include\u00a0Nature<\/em>\u00a0titles or those that are fully open access. The deal removes financial barriers and simplifies the publishing process, allowing authors to retain their rights and publish under a Creative Commons license\u2014ensuring immediate, unrestricted access to their research.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To learn more about this agreement and others, please visit our\u00a0Open Access Publishing Partnerships guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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