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

Tue Sep 23 16:18:50 UTC 2014

This is awesome news for the sciences! 

Thanks for sharing the good news!

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> On 23 Sep 2014, at 17:17, "David Wiley" <david.wiley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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>> Director of Global Learning
>> Creative Commons
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