Nature Partner Journals
Nature and the Nature research journals – now with immediate gold open access options for all primary research
We are fully committed to open research and the benefits this brings for researchers, institutions, funders and the wider public. For authors who wish to publish their research open access, the Nature Portfolio will now offer open access options for all primary research submitted from January 2021.
From January 2021 we will:
- Offer open access options for all primary research, including for Nature for the first time in its 150-year history.
- Launch our first transformative agreement for Nature and the Nature research journals with Max Planck Digital Library, enabling open access with fees covered for authors at participating institutions.
- Launch a Guided Open Access pilot on three Nature research journals, offering authors the chance to be published across multiple Nature portfolio titles with just a single submission, reducing effort and increasing efficiency for all.
What is open access (OA)?
Under the OA model, an article is made immediately available online when published, and is free to read for anyone in the world, rather than only to subscribing readers or institutions. The article is made available under a Creative Commons CC-BY license, which allows for anyone to reuse, share, or build upon the work.
In our fully OA journals (such as Nature Communications and Scientific Reports), all articles are made OA on publication. In a Transformative Journal (including Nature and the Nature research journals from January 2021), authors can choose between gold OA or subscription publication, based on their preferences, funder or institutional requirements for OA, and the availability of APC funding.
Payment for publication is typically made by the authors’ institutions or funding bodies, who pay an Article Processing Charge (APC) when the research is accepted. APCs vary from title to title, starting from €1,570 in Scientific Reports to € 9,500 in Nature.