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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">On behalf of the global Open Access 2020 Initiative, I am very happy to pass along this exciting news from our partners Projekt DEAL in Germany who are working to
<b>refactor subscription expenditures</b> to support <b>open access</b> dissemination of research instead of paywalls:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.hrk.de/press/press-releases/press-release/meldung/projekt-deal-and-springer-nature-reach-understanding-on-worlds-largest-transformative-open-access-a/"><span lang="EN-US">https://www.hrk.de/press/press-releases/press-release/meldung/projekt-deal-and-springer-nature-reach-understanding-on-worlds-largest-transformative-open-access-a/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">In their words, the Memorandum of Understanding, like the Transformative Agreement to come, signals:
</span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"FrutigerNext LT Regular"">a notable advance on Projekt DEAL’s objectives of granting German authors ever more opportunity to publish their research fully and immediately open access for scholars of the world
to read and build upon while containing the overall cost of scholarly communication.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Colleen</span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"FrutigerNext LT Regular""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Colleen Campbell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Open Access 2020 Initiative<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Max Planck Digital Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://oa2020.org/mission/">https://oa2020.org/mission/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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