Springer Nature welcomes the decision from cOAlition S to support Transformative Journals. Subject to acceptability of the yet to be published transparency requirements, it commits to transition the vast majority of its Springer Nature-owned English language journals that are not already Open Access, including Nature and the Nature Research journals, to become Transformative Journals.
Springer Nature has been advocating for Transformative Journals as a necessary complement to Transformative Agreements in the transition to OA to help smaller publishers for whom national deals are challenging; countries and funders for whom transformative deals are challenging; highly selective journals for which routes for inclusion in national agreements are still being explored; and journals that contain other types of content as well as primary research, enabling primary research to be transitioned to OA with other content funded by alternative means.
Springer Nature has been committed to opening up research for nearly 20 years. BMC launched as an OA-only imprint, publishing its first content in 2000. Springer offered some of the first OA author options in its traditional journals and concluded the first Transformative Agreement in 2015. Since then, Springer Nature has published more OA articles than any other publisher and has agreed the largest number of national Transformative Agreements.
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