One third of all German research results published per year in scientific journals are freely accessible and reusable worldwide through DEAL contracts.
In 2020, scientists in Germany published around 23,000 articles in journals published by Springer Nature and Wiley, according to the DEAL Operations website, a service of MPDL Services GmbH. The vast majority of authors (over 95%) did so using the open access option of the DEAL contracts and published under a free licence. In this way, the authors retain their rights instead of losing them with the otherwise usual exclusive transfer of rights to the publisher.
DEAL negotiates nationwide "publish and read" agreements with the largest commercial publishers of scientific journals: Publications by authors from German institutions are automatically made open access under the CC-BY licence. The DEAL agreements enable authors at over 900 institutions in Germany to publish Open Access. At the same time, universities and research institutions secure comprehensive and uniform access rights to all publishing content that is not yet available in Open Access.
"Together with the steadily growing share of publications in pure (so-called gold) open access journals, German scientists now already publish a good 50% of their output open access," DEAL Operations states at the same point: "Thus, with the help of the DEAL contracts, the open publication path is increasingly becoming the standard in science communication."
The lists of journal articles published in 2020 in the context of the DEAL contracts in Springer Nature and Wiley as well as their DOIs have now been published by MPDL Services GmbH:
- Springer Nature article list 2020: https://keeper.mpdl.mpg.de/f/f1e813e4663c428182fb/?dl
- Wiley article list of 2020: https://keeper.mpdl.mpg.de/f/bfbcbba5ec404a1a8cf4/?dl=1
In addition, there are two infographics on publication trends in 2020 at Springer Nature and Wiley (German only).
Source: 23,000 DEAL publications in 2020 - DEAL Operations (deal-operations.de)