New Transformative Agreement between Springer Nature and OASE (Open Access for Scholarly Empowerment) will further promote open access (OA) in Japan | Springer Nature Group | Springer Nature

"Springer Nature and OASE (Open Access for Scholarly Empowerment) have signed a new Transformative Agreement (TA) with the common goal of further promoting open access (OA) in Japan. This agreement will run from 2026 to 2028 and will enable universities and national research and development organisations, which have expressed an interest in participating in OASE’s TA framework, to have the option to fully or partially transform to publish OA. Currently, 83 institutions have signed up to participate from 2026.

It is expected that the agreement will enable researchers affiliated with the participating institutions in Japan to publish OA around 3,000 articles in over 2,000 of Springer hybrid journals in 2026. In addition, access will also be provided to the Springer Journal Package (containing approximately 2,200 journals), as well as to journals from Palgrave Macmillan, Adis, and Academic Journals on nature.com that the institution has subscription to."