From: Shirley Ainsworth <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 12:06:18 -0600 I guess many will have heard that Nature Communications has been transformed from a hybrid journal to fully OA from 20th October this year. However I must admit that I was somewhat surprised to find out that we are expected to renew our subscription to the journal for 2015 , and that the price is the same as for 2014. How does this work? Authors pay APCs from now on, libraries have to keep paying subscriptions, and to boot the pre-October 2014 (subscription) journal articles will never be free and will be subject to the dread Nature post-cancellation policy that has been discussed at some length on this list. Anyone else perplexed by this? Shirley -- Shirley Ainsworth Bibliotecaria/Librarian Instituto de Biotecnologia, UNAM Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. [log in to unmask]