The Nature Group intends to enhance open research and the benefits it brings to researchers, institutions, funders, and the general public. For authors wishing to publish their research openly, the Nature Group offers open access options for all primary research. What is open access? Why publish open research in the Nature Group? Open access options in the Nature Group. Transformative journals. Guided open access experience. Open access funding. Dedicated support for authors from low-income countries. What is open access?
What is Open Access?
Under the open access model, the article is made available online immediately upon publication, and anyone in the world can read it for free, instead of just being read by subscriber readers or institutions. The article is available under a Creative Commons license CC-BY, which allows anyone to use, share, or build upon it.
Why Publish Open Research in the Nature Group?
Open approaches accelerate the advancement of science. Open access is immediately available and easily discoverable: anyone can read your research, reuse it, and build upon it. Previous research indicates the benefits of open access for researchers: open articles are cited on average 1.6 times more than non-open articles, downloaded four times more, and attract interest 2.5 times more, according to media and political signals. Editorial rigor, with greater access: our open access options are based on our strong editorial expertise in the journal. Open articles follow the same rigorous standards. Compliance with funder requirements: many funders and institutions now require articles to be published openly as part of the funding conditions. We enable open access options for all primary research to empower our authors to meet these requirements, including Plan S.
Open Access Options in the Nature Group
At Springer Nature, we have been innovating in open research for two decades. In the Nature Group, this includes: launching Scientific Reports in 2011: the home for all original research across all natural and clinical sciences. It is now the seventh most cited journal in the world, attracting over 350,000 citations in 2019 and receiving wide interest in policy and media documents. Through Nature Communications, the first Nature OA journal was created, publishing papers that contribute to the advancement of natural sciences. Since it became fully open in 2014, it is the most cited multidisciplinary scientific journal in the world. Ensuring data and code deposition alongside the research article to maximize transparency and reuse. Our active encouragement of data deposition has increased the availability of data associated with published papers from about 50% to over 80% in some disciplines. Encouraging authors to submit protocols to the Protocols Exchange – an open sharing platform – providing valuable detailed reports on analytical and experimental design and statistical analyses. Offering transparent peer review, publishing peer reviewer comments alongside the article if authors wish. Developing new OA journals to support the growing need for rigorous OA journals, including Nature Partner journals in collaboration with renowned scientists, and our series of communications journals.
Transformative Journals
Starting from January 2021, authors submitting to Nature and Nature research journals can begin to choose to publish their primary research using either the traditional publishing method or immediate open access for a fee of €9,500. These journals are effectively committed to open research by increasing the number of articles we publish annually openly, with the aim of eventually becoming fully open. The journal committed to this process is referred to as a Transformative Journal (TJ). This process will enable our authors to comply with funding requirements, including Plan S. Learn more about transformative journals.
The Experience
Guided Open Access
The guided open access submission experiment has ended, and we are evaluating the experience. We will provide more information in due course.
Open Access Funding
Many organizations offer funding to support the costs of open access publishing, including the Max Planck Digital Library, the University of California, and Finnish and Swedish universities. If your institution has an open access agreement with Springer Nature, you may be able to publish open access in the Nature portfolio with fee coverage. Learn more
Dedicated Support for Authors from Low-Income Countries
A dedicated fund has been set up to enable authors from many low-income countries (currently classified by the World Bank as low-income or lower-middle-income economies) to publish their primary research openly in Nature and Nature Research journals. It provides specific assistance to support part of the authorship and applies only to selective transformative Nature journals, including Plan S. It will be reviewed at the end of 2023. These titles include: Nature; Nature Aging; Nature Astronomy; Nature Biomedical Engineering; Nature Biotechnology; Nature Cancer; Nature Cardiovascular Research; Nature Catalysis; Nature Cell Biology; Nature Chemical Biology; Nature Chemistry; Nature Climate Change; Nature Computational Science; Nature Ecology & Evolution; Nature Electronics; Nature Energy; Nature Food; Nature Genetics; Nature Geoscience; Nature Human Behaviour; Nature Immunology; Nature Machine Intelligence; Nature Materials; Nature Medicine; Nature Mental Health; Nature Metabolism; Nature Methods; Nature Microbiology; Nature Nanotechnology; Nature Neuroscience; Nature Photonics; Nature Physics; Nature Plants; Nature Structural & Molecular Biology; Nature Sustainability; Nature Synthesis, and Nature Water. Nature Communications and Scientific Reports are not covered. Please refer to our pricing FAQ for more details. As part of this initiative, authors will not need to submit a request to benefit from the support. Corresponding authors from eligible countries whose primary research papers have been provisionally accepted for publication in these titles will be notified as part of the publishing process that their paper will be published openly at no cost. Authors can choose not to publish their papers openly.
1 Over the first three years of publication. Analysis of the impact of open access for hybrid journals at Springer Nature, 2018.
Source: https://www.nature.com/nature-research/open-access/guided-open-access
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