Springer Nature - Transformative agreement

PublisherSpringer Nature
Term of agreement2020-2024
Disciplinary areas coveredMultidisciplinary
Characteristics of the agreementAccess to all the journals available on the SpringerLink (Springer, Palgrave, Adis) and the possibility for authors affiliated with the Scuola Normale who are also corresponding authors to publish open-access articles.
Types of articles publishable in open accessOriginal paper and reviews paper. Brief communications are excluded.
Journals in which publishing in open access is possibleIn all the hybrid journals present on the SpringerLink platform (Riviste Open Choice Standard). 
Consult the list by clicking on Eligible journals at the informational page (Open access agreement for Italy - Information for authors) prepared by the publisher. 
Open-access publishing in Nature journals is not possible under the terms of the contract.
Workflow for publishing in open accessThe corresponding author may choose to publish his or her work in open access only if at the submission stage, at the end of the peer review process, he or she follows the publication process proposed by the publisher on the MyPublication platform and selects the Scuola Normale as organisation of affiliation and /or utilises his or her SNS e-mail address @sns.it and/or connects to a workstation connected to the SNS network. The affiliation is verified and validated by the referents of the Scuola Normale.
The validation of the corresponding author takes into account the date of acceptance of the article on the part of the publisher independently of the date of the first submission.
APCs coverThe agreement does not include a pre-established distribution of the APCs among the subscribing institutions. The APCs are progressively used up until the number available at national level is exhausted.
Availability of the APCs for the current yearAPCs available.
LicenceCC-BY, except for some individual journals that require a CC-BY-NC. The copyright remains of the author.
Informational supportOpen access agreement for Italy - Information for authors 
CRUI agreement subscribed by SNS
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