As part of the Swiss national strategy on Open Access, swissuniversities, on behalf of the Swiss Higher Education Institutions, and Springer Nature signed a third Read & Publish agreement (2026-2029), covering Springer and Nature entire journal portfolios.After a contract-less period at the beginning of the year, and continued negotiations in the following months, a comprehensive open-access agreement with the scientific publisher Springer Nature finally comes into force at EPFL and other Swiss participating universities.EPFL affiliated corresponding authors can publish in Open Access at no additional cost across Springer Nature’s entire portfolio. The EPFL community will also have a full reading access to this wide portfolio.The agreement also explicitly regulates the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in connection with licensed content and guarantees members of Swiss higher education institutions the greatest possible flexibility in the use of AI tools to analyse Springer Nature publications in research, teaching and innovation.You can find further information dedicated to national Big Deals with commercial publishers on the swissuniversities webpage.Any question? Contact [email protected] (Library Scientific publishing team) for any information on Open Access and publishing options.For any further information about negotiations with academic publishers, please visit go.epfl.ch/negotiations.