Open Science
Making research freely available, reusable and reproducible for everyone
What is open access?
Open access (OA) means making research freely available online so anyone can read, download and build upon it. Springer Nature is committed to making the transition to open access sustainable and equitable for all.
Gold open access
Immediately freely available to all readers upon publication
Green open access
Self-archive your accepted manuscript in a repository
Hybrid journals
Choose open access for your article in a subscription journal
Our open science commitments
Transparent peer review
We publish reviewer and author correspondence reports
Data sharing
We support open data through partnerships with Figshare
Code sharing
Our partnership with Code Ocean enables integrated code sharing
Preprints
We support early sharing through InReview and Research Square
Transformative Agreements
Our transformative agreements enable institutions to publish open access at scale, supporting a sustainable transition to OA globally.
Find your institution's agreement