Springer Nature pledges support for Plan S | Research Information

"Springer Nature is specifically calling on cOAlition S funders to:

• Commit to undertake research to demonstrate the benefits of OA and the promotion of it to increase author and other funder take-up;
• Commit to make transformative deals, such as Publish and Read deals, a key part of Plan S given their proven ability to drive growth in OA and within these deals and to remove its requirement for publishers to commit to ‘flip’ hybrid journals to OA in the near future;
• Rethink more broadly its opposition to hybrid journals at a time when many academic disciplines and many geographic regions are not yet fully supportive of Gold OA;  
• Remove the requirement to provide APC discounts for middle income countries such as China which is the largest publisher of academic research in the world and the second largest investor in R&D;
• Recognise that highly selective journals and those with significant levels of non-primary research content need to be treated differently; and
• Support platforms providing early access to primary research...."