April 1, 2021 Springer Nature and IReL, a nationally funded e-resource licensing consortium of publicly funded Irish higher educational institutions, have agreed a four year transformative agreement (TA). This new deal, the 13th for Springer Nature – more than any other publisher, gives publications from researchers across Ireland increased global reach. Research shows that TAs are the fastest way to enable the OA transition as they enable more authors to publish OA. This is because TA’s offer authors an easy way to comply with funders’ OA requirements whilst enabling participating institutions to better manage the cost and administration of OA by combining journal subscription (read) access along with OA publication costs (APCs). In countries where Springer Nature has a TA, up to 90% of Springer Nature content is now published via gold OA.