NPG's annual letter to customers (September 21, 2011)

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"Open access has been at the heart of NPG’s expansion for the last two years, as we seek to avoid adding further stress to library budgets. Of the five new journals we have launched in 2011, four have been open access. Perhaps the most significant of these launches has been Scientific Reports, our multidisciplinary open access journal covering all of the natural sciences. In addition, in the past year we have introduced open access options on 19 further journals. Of the 74 NPG journals that publish research, 51 now have an open access option or are fully open access, and open access options are available on 92% (49 of 53) of our academic and society journal portfolio. NPG offers authors a choice of Creative Commons licenses for open access papers. We now make an annual donation to Creative Commons of $20 for every article processing charge (APC) paid for publication in all the journals owned by NPG with an open access option. We have also back-dated these payments to every APC we received from 2005, when we started offering open access publishing options, to 2010. Many of our academic and society journal partners are also considering joining us in this initiative. This financial support is part of our commitment to openness and reuse and the legal framework behind them. While supporting open access, we remain convinced that there is a diverse future for journal publishing. Our open access position statement, published in January 2011, sets out NPG's views...."

Link:

http://www.nature.com/press_releases/letter2011.html

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Tags:

oa.new oa.npg oa.gold ru.ps oa.journals

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 12:29

Date published:

09/26/2011, 20:23