#Open #access #publishing #models and #policies have been at the #heart of #Nature #Publishing #Group #NPG’s #business #development and #strategic #thinking throughout the last decade. NPG has consistently been an early mover in embracing the open access debate as a natural consequence of new technologies, from ceasing to require copyright transfer on research articles in 2002, to NPG’s self-archiving policy and first open access options introduced in 2005. NPG’s focus is broadening beyond open access to open science, seeking to facilitate transparent, open scientific communication through data services, collaboration tools and public accessibility and reuse. Announced on 22nd October 2014, Nature Publishing Group is now a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), a trade association which represents the interests of open access publishers in all academic disciplines. Nature Publishing Group’s sister company Palgrave Macmillan is already a member of OASPA, and Carrie Calder, Director of Strategy for Open Research, Nature Publishing Group/Palgrave Macmillan is a member of the OASPA board. NPG continues to expand the open access options it offers to authors, with new open access journal launches and open access options on many subscription journals. The first of these open access options were introduced in 2005, and NPG now publishes over 70 journals that are open access or offer open access options. In total NPG published almost 5,000 open access articles in 2013, more than double 2012’s total (2,326). Launched in April 2010, Nature Communications was the first Nature research journal to offer authors an open access publication option for original research articles, on payment of an article processing charge. One of NPG’s fastest growing titles, it now receives 1,000 submissions a month, and the first six months of 2014 have seen over 1,500 articles published in the journal, compared to just over 1,600 in the whole of 2013. Nature Communications remains #3 in the Multidisciplinary Sciences for a second year, increasing its Impact Factor to 10.742*. Announced on 23rd September 2014, Nature Communications is to become Nature Publishing Groups flagship open access title, and confirms the company’s commitment to providing high quality open access research alongside its subscription portfolio. From 20th October 2014 Nature Communications will only accept open access research submissions. NPG will honour author’s choice of subscription or open access publication, for those authors whose research is currently in review by the journal, and for submissions up to the 19 October 2014. This means that subscription content will continue to be published in 2015, and available to site license customers. NPG is also making further policy moves with this development. Nature Communications now offers the CC BY 4.0 license as default, with other Creative Commons (CC) licenses available upon request. There is no price difference for the choice of CC license. APC waivers will be available for HINARI countries, and to others on a case-by-case basis. An FAQ for librarians about this change can be viewed here and should you receive queries from authors an FAQ for authors can be viewed here. Adding to NPG’s growing portfolio of open access journals, Scientific Reports launched in June 2011 and established itself further in 2013, with over 4,000 citations (up from 500 in 2012) and an Impact Factor of 5.078, placing it in the top 7% of all 8474 journals in the 2013 Science Edition of the Journal Citation Report. Scientific Reports joined Nature Communications in the Multidisciplinary Sciences top five. Scientific Data, an open access, online only platform for the publication of descriptions of scientifically valuable datasets was launched in May 2014. The primary article-type, the Data Descriptor, is designed to make data more discoverable, interpretable and reusable. Scientific Data complements and supports existing community data repositories, and collaborates with the Dryad Digital Repository and figshare, two “generalist” scientific repositories, to ensure that all types of data can find a home. NPG increased its commitment to open science with the launch of the Nature Partner Journal series in spring 2014. This high-quality, online only subject specific portfolio of journals brings NPG’s reputation for impact and excellence to open access and publishing partnerships. The Nature Partner Journals are characterized by landmark partnerships with institutions, foundations and academic societies. The first 4 titles in this series are: npj Aging and Mechanism of Disease; npj Biofilms and Microbiomes; npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine; npj Schizophrenia. NPG’s self-archiving policies meet or exceed all major funder and public access policies, enabling every author who publishes with NPG to comply with public access mandates. NPG also offers a free Manuscript Deposition Service, to help authors comply with these mandates. More information about NPGs open access policies and activities is available in our open access pages for authors and our January 2011 position statement. In 2010 we announced that 2012 site license pricing for hybrid open access journals will be determined by the percentage change in the amount of subscription access articles. This means the subscription price will be based only on the amount of subscribed content, independent of the open access content. We do not ‘double-dip’ by factoring open access content in the site license price. It is our current policy that NPG-owned journals whose subscription content changes by more than 10% when comparing the previous two years will have their site license price adjusted. For example, our 2015 price adjustment, set in 2014, is based on the change in subscription content for 2012/13. Annual inflationary increases will still apply. Read more about site license price adjustments on NPG-owned journals with open access options and click here. We offer an APC support service to make it easier for NPG authors to discover and apply for APC funding. For advice on what funding is available and help in approaching funders and institutions, authors should contact openaccess@nature, or consult our list of open access funders. For a complete list of NPG journals offering open access options see nature/libraries/open_access/oa_pub_models.html
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 20:18:03 +0000