New research from Springer Nature confirms value in ‘Going for Gold’

A new white paper published in October 2021 from Springer Nature builds on the growing body of evidence that shows that Gold open access (OA) is best for authors and researchers. This white paper presents the findings from that analysis, which show a clear advantage in reach and impact for articles published open access (OA) in hybrid journals compared to non-OA articles in the same journals, and for the first time also an advantage for full (Gold) OA articles compared to subscription articles where an earlier article version (such as an accepted manuscript or preprint) has been self-archived in an OA repository. The white paper can be read here. More information on the white paper and Springer series of OA white papers can be found here.