Ways to promote and support open access publishing under your agreement

If your institution is part of our agreement, you can easily promote it to your users and researchers. Here, we have summarised some ideas that might help you to further support open access publishing in your organisation.

1. Make sure your corresponding authors know how to publish under your agreement.

Once an article has been accepted for publication, corresponding authors will be sent a link to the eligibility checker, where they will be asked to confirm their institutional affiliation.

There are three ways that Springer Nature can recognise eligibility for coverage under an agreement. Corresponding authors should ensure at least one of the below parameters matches our author identification check.

Selected Institutions	Institutional Email	Location
Corresponding authors should enter the eligible institution name	Corresponding author should use their institutional email address	It is always best for corresponding authors to submit from their institition's network