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Until then, each Nature title will continue to review and publish manuscripts submitted the conventional way (without a processing fee), to appear on publication behind a subscription-based paywall. The Nature group plans to eventually convert its research titles to that model, and then the waiver policy would apply, spokesperson Susie Winter said.

Springer Nature has a policy waiving publishing fees for authors who can demonstrate a financial need for its journals that publish all content open access. 'I struggle to believe that Nature's … editorial policies or production quality are better,' Marks wrote. The Lancet, which has a higher journal impact factor than Nature, charges an open-access publishing fee of $5000. 'The fee to me seems incredibly high,' he added. 'Early career researchers in both high and low income settings mostly won't be able to afford this, so Nature will just remain the preserve of already established senior professors-how is this good for anyone other than Springer Nature?' wrote Michael Marks, who studies infectious diseases at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, in an email. Some observers worry Nature's €9500 publishing fee is so high that it threatens to divide authors into two tiers-those at wealthy institutions or with access to funds to pay, and everyone else. The for-profit company publishes 600 journals that are exclusively open access and another 2200 'hybrid' journals that both charge subscriptions and offer open-access publishing to authors for a fee. And open access is 'kind of in our DNA,' he added: Springer Nature, the parent of the Nature group, is already the world's largest publisher of open-access articles. The Nature journals are jumping into open access for all authors now 'because we see that's the future, that's where the scientific enterprise is naturally going to go,' said James Butcher, the group's vice president of journals. Overall, that analysis-by the Clarivate analytics firm based on its Web of Science database-found that only 6% of all scholarly papers published in 2017 received support from Plan S funders. One analysis found that 35% of papers published in Nature in 2017 acknowledged support from a Plan S funder.

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One way for authors to comply is to choose journals that assess an 'article processing charge'-such as the one the Nature journals are instituting-to make content immediately open access.Īfter Plan S was proposed in September 2018, some authors decried it as limiting academic freedom and opportunities for professional advancement, in part because the policy was expected to bar publication in Nature and other selective journals that did not offer open-access options. Plan S funders forbid authors who publish articles on research they funded to place those papers in journals who publish new articles only behind paywalls. The changes take effect in January 2021, which coincides with the implementation date of Plan S, a mandate by funders-mostly in Europe-for open access.

#No umbrellas allowed publisher trial

The Nature group also announced a trial of a lower cost open-access option: when authors submit a manuscript to one of three journals- Nature Genetics, Nature Methods, and Nature Physics-they could pay €4790 or less per paper for open access, if they agree to participate in a process called 'guided review.' In that process, if editors of the three journals and colleagues decide a manuscript is worthy enough to send out for peer review, they will ask authors to pay an initial fee of €2190 to cover review costs and then pay an additional fee if the paper is accepted.

But the Nature Research publishing group says it is necessary to cover the costs of the full-time editors and others who produce Nature and its 32 other primary research journals. Nature's author fee, €9500, is thought to be the highest of any journal. Such open-access arrangements are being required by some European funders and foundations that seek to eliminate subscription paywalls in order to speed the flow of scientific information.

#No umbrellas allowed publisher free

The journals will become among the first highly selective titles to allow any author to pay a publishing fee to make articles immediately free to read when published. The elite Nature family of journals, including the flagship Nature, today announced it is taking the plunge into open access in scientific publishing.