OVER 60% OF 2015 RESEARCH ARTICLES ON NATURE.COM ARE OPEN ACCESS

"Nature Publishing Group publishes 63% of research articles via open access models; 96% of authors choose CC BY....Open access is thriving at Nature Publishing Group (NPG). Sixty three per cent of original research articles published to date on nature.com in 2015 are open access, nearly 10,000 papers. Ten years ago, NPG introduced its first fully open access journal. Today, 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 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% in 2014 to 96% 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.

Sam Burridge, Managing Director, Open Research at Springer Nature said: "We believe we're the first of the longstanding science publishers to reach the landmark of over 60% open access content. By switching Nature Communications to full open access one year ago, we demonstrated our willingness to take a bold step and innovate in the open research space, creating a home for the highest quality open research. And we're encouraging our authors to choose more permissive licenses too...."