A recap of a successful year in open access, and introducing CC BY as default

"We’re pleased to start 2015 with an announcement that we’re now using Creative Commons Attribution license CC BY 4.0 as default. This will apply to all of the 18 fully open access journals Nature Publishing Group owns, and will also apply to any future titles we launch. Two society- owned titles have introduced CC BY as default today and we expect to expand this in the coming months.   This follows a transformative 2014 for open access and open research at Nature Publishing Group ..."