France: Couperin does not renew the national agreement with Springer

This comes after 13 months of intense negotiations with SpringerNature, conducted by the National Consortium Couperin.org. Couperin.org representing over 250 institutions of higher education, research and health: universities, schools, research organizations including the CNRS, hospitals such as Hospices Civils de Lyon.

Negotiations have stalled as a result of the divergence of economic approach between the publisher and the higher education and research institutions.

The lack of agreement between SpringerNature and Couperin.org consortium is for the publisher a shortfall of over € 5M per year [$6.15 Million/USD]; inaccessibility of Springer journals in the French research units will have on these reviews a negative impact in terms of citations and articles submissions.