[Open-education] [OER-advocacy] Nature Communications to become fully OA

Tue Sep 23 16:14:18 UTC 2014

Wow!

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Cable Green <cable at creativecommons.org> wrote:
> Go Nature!
>
> www.nature.com/press_releases/ncomms-oa.html
>
> Nature Communications is to become the first Nature-branded open access only
> journal. The number one open access journal in multidisciplinary sciences*,
> Nature Communications is Nature Publishing Group's (NPG) flagship open
> access title. Nature Communications will only accept open access research
> submissions from 20th October 2014.
>
> 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.
>
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