Nature to launch OA journal :The Scientist [23rd September 2009]

"Nature Communications is set to launch in April 2010, and the hybrid open-access publication will be the first online-only title in Nature's family of journals....Nature has made some forays into open access in the past couple years, with a policy that makes papers announcing organismal genome sequences open-access and a move to deposit papers in PubMed Central six months after their publication on behalf of authors. According to NPG's annual letter to customers, which was sent out last week, the publisher is set to roll out more open access titles in 2010. 'We plan to introduce several open access journals in our academic and society journal program in 2010....'"