Nature journals ink open-access deal

doi:10.1126/science.370.6515.391-a

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DOI	10.1126/science.370.6515.391-a
	Nature journals ink open-access deal
	Jeffrey Brainard
	2020-10-23
发表期刊	Science
出版年	2020
英文摘要	A prominent publisher of selective subscription journals has stepped up its commitment to open access. This week, the Nature family of journals said it has struck a deal that will allow scientists at research institutions across Germany to publish papers in Nature and its 54 sister journals that are immediately free to read. Most of those journals have traditionally had paywalls, although they do allow authors to deposit articles in free public repositories such as PubMed 6 months after publication. The deal, known as a transformative agreement, comes as research funders in Europe are pushing to demolish journal paywalls and redirect money spent on subscriptions to supporting open access. Many open-access journals support their operations by charging authors a processing fee, often more than $2000 per paper. The Nature deal is different. Starting in January 2021, institutions can pay an annual fee that allows their scientists to publish an unlimited number of research articles in the journals that will be free to all readers. The fee will also include access to other types of Nature content, including the review articles that appear in 21 journals, that currently require a subscription to read. Even if all 120 institutes in Germany that now subscribe to Nature's titles sign up, the publisher estimates their authors will publish no more than 400 papers per year in its journals. That would be about 3.5% of all articles published in Nature and its sister journals. The fee each institution pays will be based in part on Nature's calculation that it will cost €9500 ($11,200) to publish each open-access paper. Some institutions could end up spending more than they do now on Nature subscriptions, the publisher noted. It also said that Springer Nature, Nature's parent company, plans to roll out other ways for “authors around the world” to publish open-access articles in its journals.
领域	气候变化 ; 资源环境
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