Open access

Journal launched with Institute of Systems Engineering dedicated to publishing high-quality research on reliability

First year of Pledge to Open initiative supported by large and small institutions

Springer Nature says its approach towards open access (OA) "continues to deliver the highest impact for its authors and the research community"

A new report from the publishing company shows that:

Framework provides users with guiding principles, data, information, and tools to implement more equitable pricing

More than 300,000 full-text articles from all of PLOS’ 14 journals will now be accessible through ResearchGate

Three hundred groundbreaking new books on the path to open access

Publisher "doing good things to make research output more diverse and equitable"

Publisher's data shows articles published OA are on average downloaded  70%  more than paywalled articles

By the end of this year KU’s total impact will number around 5,000 titles published OA

Project will have a particular focus on learned society, subject association, and smaller specialist publishers