Springer Nature

Springer Nature has an open access publishing agreement with the University of Birmingham. It allows University of Birmingham affiliated corresponding authors (subject to eligibility criteria listed below) to publish open access at no additional cost in Springer, Palgrave and Nature Research hybrid titles that offer a Gold OA option.

• Use our search tool to check if a particular journal is covered.

• Springer/ Palgrave journals covered in agreement (Excel - 98 KB)
• Nature journals covered in agreement (Excel - 14KB)

Eligibility criteria

• The agreement is only available for the following article types:
  • original papers (when publishing in a Nature journal this is the only eligible article type)
  • review papers
  • brief communications
  • continuing education

• The corresponding author must be affiliated to the University of Birmingham, and ensure their @bham.ac.uk email address is used on submission to the journal and throughout the publication process.
• Any additional page, colour or other charges will not be covered through this agreement or the open access budget.

Next steps

If you meet the eligibility criteria for this agreement, you can submit to the journal. On acceptance, remember to create a record in Pure and link to any funding acknowledged on the paper.

If you are uncertain whether you are eligible for this agreement, please complete an APC request form.