Springer Nature offers both title volume and category discounts. In addition to these discounts, over the term of the three-year agreement, all institutions will benefit from a 3.5% fixed, year-on-year price increase on their overall price paid for subscribed journals in the previous year. This is based on institutions renewing all titles under a three-year agreement.

Category Discounts: Platinum Plus, Platinum Legacy, Diamond, Gold, Silver, Bronze.

Please see the Offer Document under "Agreement Information" tab below for an explanation of the category discounts in this offer.

Access years

For Nature Research and Scientific American titles, customers are given continuing rights to the years subscribed (e.g. 2020) and granted access (not continuing rights) to the four years prior (e.g. 2016-2019).

For academic journals on Nature.com, customers are given continuing rights to the years subscribed (e.g. 2020) and granted fixed access back to 1997.

Note that in 2017, only the fixed access (not continuing access) set-up for Nature-branded titles and Scientific American changed: New titles added since 2013 were granted fixed access back to 2012. This followed the removal of the four year rolling wall.

Ordering Process

Institutions should confirm the titles they wish to subscribe to for 2020 and 2021 to their named Springer Nature representative. The publisher will provide a quotation and confirm the appropriate discount and amount due.

**Please note that Compact subscribers should not renew their Academic Journals via this agreement in 2021 as they will be included in the Compact renewal. Non-Compact institutions should continue to renew AJs via this agreement.

Institutions should then agree their quotation with Springer Nature and, if paying via an agent, ensure the agent receives the quotation and provides the order reference number to the publisher. Please also include the date that the quote was sent (e.g. 10 December 2019) and the overall £ total of the accepted quotation when placing your order.

All orders must be confirmed on the Jisc Collections website whether payment is being made via a subscription agent or Jisc Collections. By ordering on the website, the institution confirms they have agreed the quotation provided by the publisher.

The order confirmation deadline is 18 December 2019 and 18 December 2020.

Publisher selection policy

Springer Nature is the publisher of the world's most influential journals and a pioneer in the field of open research. Their mission is to enable the advancement of research and to help the research community to improve outcomes.

Through Nature's portfolio of journals, they enable researchers, students, teachers and professionals to access the full depth and breadth of science, technology, medicine, social sciences and humanities.

• Journals on SpringerLink cover the breadth of science, technology, medicine and social sciences through thousands of titles specific to their disciplines including the Springer, Palgrave Macmillan and Adis imprints
• Journals on nature.com cover the cutting edge of science, technology and medicine, and provide high impact reviews of their fields through prestigious multi-disciplinary titles from Nature Research and a variety of discipline-specific academic journals. Institutional clients can access Scientific American through the nature.com platform

Backfiles or archives included

Back-files included in the offer: See "Access years" above for full details.

For Academic journals on Nature.com archives are freely available online.

In 2007 clients with an existing site license were granted access back to the first year of publication online.

Jisc banded customers are entitled to a 15% discount on backfile and archive purchases for Nature, Nature Research Journals and Scientific American. This Jisc discount is in addition to any volume discounts that may also apply for multiple backfile years.