Researcher Essentials

Springer Nature

Title list

• The Springer title list is available online but is dynamic and may change throughout the year. You can also check the publisher's website for the most up-to-date list of titles.

Capped Agreement

• This is a capped agreement. The agreement applies has an allowance of 3511 articles (2025) by authors from institutions participating in the agreement to be published in 2025 without a transactional open access (OA) article processing charge (APC)
• Track the cap progress here.

Agreement details

Further information about this agreement and the open access workflow can be found on the CAUL site and from the Springer Nature site.

Key points

• Articles accepted after January 1, 2025 are eligible for open access under this agreement
• The agreement includes most of Springer Nature's hybrid journals without the need for any transactional OA APC
• The agreement does not include the Nature portfolio journals e.g. Nature, Nature Genetics, Nature Climate Change
• Authors from participating institutions publishing in Springer Nature's hybrid journals can utilize the APC waiver
• Corresponding authors must use their institutional email address and include a participating institution as one of their affiliations to benefit from this agreement and will be identified by:
  • institutional affiliation
  • email address
  • IP address
• Hybrid journals that "flip" to OA during the course of this agreement will remain available for OA publishing for the duration of the agreement
• Springer Nature journals do charge additional fees such as page and/or colour fees not covered by the APC waiver. Check the journal's submission guidelines for other fees and charges
• No other APC discounts are offered under this agreement.

Article types

The following article types are eligible for open access under this agreement:

• Original paper (original research, original article, original paper or research paper)
• Review paper (standard article, interpreting previously published results).
• Brief communications (short article submitted for rapid publication that exhibits the same structure as a standard article)
• Continuing education (article forming integral part of further education, usually medical).

There are no exclusions.

Contacts

Please email orsuppot@springernature.com for questions regarding submissions under this agreement. Please include your full name, institution, article title, journal name and DOI (if available), and state the reason for your enquiry.