Open access is thriving at Nature Publishing Group (NPG) with sixty three percent of original research articles published to date on nature.com in 2015. Ten years ago, NPG introduced its first fully open access journal. Currently, NPG publishes over 80 journals with an open access option.
In January 2015, NPG introduced Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY) as the default open access license option on its over 20 fully owned open access journals. The percentage of authors choosing CC BY across all of NPG's open access journals has risen dramatically - from 26 percent in 2014 to 96 percent in September 2015. Other licenses are still available on demand.
This week is global Open Access Week, and also marks one year since NPG, now part of Springer Nature, announced that Nature Communications would become its flagship open access journal.
Nature Communications has gone from strength to strength in the last year. It is now the leading open access journal in the multidisciplinary science field, and number three in its Journals Citation Report category after Nature and Science. Research has also shown that open access articles published in Nature Communications are more highly viewed and cited. Submissions to Nature Communications have increased from 1600 per month in 2014 to 2000 per month in 2015.
As the latest step in Nature Communications' transition, NPG will be making all the legacy subscription content in the journal free to access from January 2016. This includes archives and backfiles. All new content published in Nature Communications in 2016 will be open access, with CC BY as the default license.
Yesterday in China, NPG announced npj Pollution Control, a new open access journal in partnership with Tongji University, Shanghai. The journal aims to publish original, high quality research results and breakthroughs in a broad area of environmental science and engineering with relevance to prevention, control, monitoring and mitigation of environmental pollution, to address this global challenge spanning a number of disciplines.
NPG is involved in a number of events across the globe for Open Access Week, from the USA to UK, China and Australia, involving authors, librarians and early career researchers.
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