Opening up communications
The transition to fully open access publishing establishes Nature Communications as the flagship Nature-branded open access journal.
Nature Communications has come a long way since our first submission five years ago. We have now published more than 5,000 papers, 2,000 in 2014 alone.
“We believe in driving open access publishing forwards so that the widest possible audience can appreciate the high quality research we publish.”
The journal launched with a ‘hybrid’ access model: authors could choose whether content was published for subscribers or as open access through the payment of an article processing charge (APC). This was a bold step for the Nature journals—a journal that enabled open access publishing while applying Nature standards of editorial evaluation and peer review was without precedent.
We are therefore delighted to announce that from 20 October 2014, all papers submitted to Nature Communications will, if accepted, be published open access through payment of an APC. The default publication licence is Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY). This allows maximum re-use and discovery of a body of work—in the full spirit of open access—although other licence types are available on request.
We hope you agree that moving fully open access is a positive step for our authors, readers and the communities we serve. As Nature Publishing Group's flagship open access title, and a premier multidisciplinary journal, we are as committed as ever to delivering a great service to our authors and readers by publishing some of the most interesting scientific discoveries. By making these discoveries accessible to everyone, we hope to further drive the endeavours and advances that they seed.
Источник: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/141020/ncomms6523/full/ncomms6523.html