Dear Academics,
Please find below the email from TÜBİTAK regarding Open Access Agreements – the Springer Nature Open Access Quota.
"TÜBİTAK-Springer Nature Open Access Agreement’ covers the period 2024–2026 and includes a quota for a specific number of open access (OA) articles for each year. As of 24 June 2026, there are ‘45’ articles remaining from the OA article quota allocated for 2026, and it is anticipated that the remaining quota will be exhausted within a few days.
Article submissions received by the TÜBİTAK account are assessed according to the date and the sequence number assigned upon entry into the system. Articles that are not assessed before the quota is exhausted will not be approved. Authors of these articles may publish their work via AE by paying the APC themselves, or, if the journal is hybrid, they will have the option of closed-access publication without paying the APC.
For journals that transition from the hybrid model to the full open access/gold model during the agreement period, as there is no option for closed-access publication, authors must cover the APC themselves.
Access to Springer Nature journal content will continue until the end of 2026; please visit https://cabim.ulakbim.gov.tr/ekual/ekual-veritabanlari/ for the list of journals.
Negotiations with the publisher regarding the continuation of the agreement for 2027 and beyond have commenced, and it is intended that these be concluded before the end of the year."
Regards,
AGU Library
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