![]() What would happen if we can't reach a deal? UK Universities are negotiating to reach an affordable, sustainable OA agreement with Springer Nature that will ensure both that authors can comply with their funder requirements AND be eligible for assistance with the payment of APCs. As such, they are eligible tor APC payments from block grants, as long as other conditions are met. Nature, Nature research journals and Palgrave journals are hybrid journals that have recently been give transformative journal status by Jisc. Funders have made this commitment to transitional agreements in order to help transform scholarly publishing towards the Plan S goal of achieving full and immediate open access to peer-reviewed scholarly publications from research funded by public and private grants. ![]() If you publish in a hybrid journal, it is possible that your funder will only pay for open access charges if that journal is part of a transitional agreement. Hybrid journals give authors the choice to pay an APC and make their article open access, or publish for free but have the article behind a paywall. Include a rights retention statement when you submit the manuscript to enable you to do this.
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