Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, and Creative Commons have announced an ongoing agreement to support the work of Creative Commons (CC). NPG has pledged an annual donation to CC. This will be equivalent to $20 for every article processing charge (APC) paid for publication in any of the 20 journals owned by NPG with an open access (OA) option, up to a maximum of $100,000 a year.
This builds on a recent announcement that NPG will make a donation to CC of $20 per APC for articles published in Scientific Reports, the company's latest OA publication. NPG has kick-started its wider support with a donation of $15,560 to CC's current funding drive. This is equivalent to $20 per APC for all 778 OA papers published by NPG, from when it started offering OA publishing options to its authors in 2005, to the end of 2010.
As of January 2011, NPG publishes 45 journals that have an open access option, or are entirely open access. Twenty are wholly owned by the publisher, and it is these journals that the CC agreement will apply to. For each APC paid on these journals, NPG will donate $20 to CC. NPG is currently in discussion with its academic and society partners, and with their agreement, expects to expand the programme to society-owned journals in the coming months.
Authors of the research paper concerned will be eligible for complimentary membership of the CC network. Creating profiles on the CC network allows authors to expose their work to an international community of open access supporters and leading thinkers. This membership offer is retrospective, and open to all authors of every open access article published in NPG journals from 2005 to the end of 2010.
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