Archive Rights Acquisition as an Integral Part of the Transformative Open Access Agreement DEAL-Springer Nature

• Applicant: Dr. Frank Sander
• Term: from 2019 to 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 438500903

The aim of the project is to make available permanent archive access rights to almost all journal titles of the scientific publisher Springer Nature for the publication year 2019 and all previous years for all German scientific institutions participating in DEAL with regard to Springer Nature within the framework of the intended DEAL-Publish&Read contract between MPDL Services GmbH and the publisher Springer Nature including the right to hosting in a national dark Archive.

• DFG Programme: Science Communication, Research Data, eResearch (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• Co-Investigator: Dr. Ralf Schimmer