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SpringerNature, owner of Nature Publishing Group, Springer Open, and BioMedCentral, is the world’s largest fully open access journal publisher as measured by number of journals. The purpose of this post is to underscore what appears to be a significant open
access attrition rate at SpringerOpen (15% OA attrition in the past few years) and raise questions about challenges to finding and identifying these journals as open access. Ceased journals that were always open access are listed on the SpringerLink (mostly
subscriptions) site, not the SpringerOpen website. Subscriptions articles are clearly marked as such; the OA status of an article is not stated on the journal home page. Information provided by a library about License Terms may not mention or resemble a CC
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<div><font color="#111111" face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13px;"></span></font><a href="https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2019/07/22/springer-open-ceased-now-hybrid-oa-identification-challenges/" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk664735" previewremoved="true">https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2019/07/22/springer-open-ceased-now-hybrid-oa-identification-challenges/</a></div>
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<p>Dr. <span style="font-size:12pt">Heather Morrison</span></p>
<p>Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa</p>
<p>Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa<br>
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<p style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">Principal Investigator, Sustaining the Knowledge Commons, a SSHRC Insight Project</p>
<p style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">sustainingknowledgecommons.org</p>
<p>Heather.Morrison@uottawa.ca<br>
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