July 2023

FACT SHEET

Half of all Springer Nature primary research
to be Open Access by end of 2024
We have championed the value and impact of open access (OA) for over 20 years. OA has clear benefits forresearchers and society - increased usage, reach, and visibility, whilst also ensuring that the very content that
can help address global challenges gets into the hands of those that can effect change.
We continue to invest in our fully OA portfolio, new OA models and transitioning our hybrid journals with afocus on gold OA.

1.25m+primary researchand review
articles published
via Gold OA

38%

of all our content
is published OA,
with the aim ofreaching half by
the end of 2024

3,500+

our agreements
now support
researchers from3,500+ institutions aroundthe world in
publishing OA

2,200+

OA bookspublished since
the launch of
our OA Book
Programmein 2021200m+

our OA bookchapters havebeen downloaded
over 200 Million
times

600+

fully OA journals– with the highest
average citation
rate and downloads per articleof any fully OA
publisher

2,700+

our contentsharing tool
SharedIt covers
2,700 journals andover 4.4 Million
article links wereaccessed in 2022

Why OA matters
For authors
Publishing OA increases visibility and usage of their work, supporting career progression
OA articles achieve

1.6x50%than non OA articles across all subjects

than non OA books on average

More citations

More citations

2.5x10x

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OA articles attracted 1.9x more news mentions and1.2x more policy mentions than non OA articles

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than non OA books on average

For librarians and institutions
OA articles / books have higher donloads than non OA content

6x10xfor OA articles than non OA articles

for OA books on average thannon OA books on average

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For Society and Science

OA ensures that research is open for all and able to be used to tackle societal challenges
As a result society can benefit more quickly rom scientificdiscoveries – such as the COVID vaccine

48%+of SDG-related
articles are OA

driving forward knowledge
around tackling societal changes

68%

Nearly 3bnwere published in fully OA
journals, ensuring greater
access to research

for OA books on average thanin 2022

of our OA articles in 2022

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July 2023

Transformative agreements

TAs are the most proven, sustainable and equitable way to transition to OA for all disciplines and at scale

For librarians
and institutions

ensure an easy OA
workflow, one central
payment, increase
read and publishingusage

For authors

make OA a viableoption, no payment
required, discipline
neutralFor funders

For scienceand researchincrease reach ofauthors’ work,
enabling county levelflips to OA

driving growth incontent, enabling
equitable transition
for all disciplines

OA TAs support researchers from over 3,500 institutions
Australia andNew ZealandAustria
CanadaColombia
CyprusCzechia
Denmark
Egypt
FinlandGermany(DEAL)
GreeceItaly
Hungary
Ireland
India
IsraelJapan
Malaysia
Manipal
MexicoNetherlands
NorwayPolandPortugal
Qatar
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Africa
Spain
SwedenSwitzerland
UK

National, Sub-National or Institutional Agreement

Largestwith DEAL1

First

LargestwithCalifornia

in Japan1

FirstFirstin Africa(Egypt)in Latin
AmericaUSA

More about our Transformative Agreements

Driving Open Science

Open science helps to deliver efficiencies and speed up scientific discoveries
We are committed to paving the way forwards for an open science
future by creating the tools and services, of which OA is one, to makeOpen Science a reality for all.

26 billion euros
is wastedin Europe

Making sure research is open, can be replicated and knowledge built uponis essential to the development of a fully open science world. Driving
knowledgeforwards, it ensures science reaches the hands of those thatcan lead change against the world's most pressing societal challenges.

DataCodeFinalversionof record

due to research and data notbeing shared and re-useable

Protocols& Methods

Preprints

We work in partnerships with organisations such as Figshare, CodeOcean and ResearchGate to help researchersmake all parts of theirfindings as accessible, discoverable, usable, re-usable and shareable as possible.

Our commitment toopen researchContact

Access our reports

Katie Baker, Head of Communications, Publishing and Research Service

Read our white papers

Why publish withSpringer Nature

katie.baker@springernature.com+44 (0)207 843 2651