From: "Bourke, Amy" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 18:46:44 +0000 Dear all, We’ve replied to Shirley directly about this, but we also wanted to clear up any confusion by posting here, too. Nature Communications will accept open access submissions only from 20th October, to ensure there is a Nature-branded flagship journal for high-quality, open access research. In the journal’s transition to full open access, it is important to us to honour the author's choice of subscription or open access publication for those authors whose research was currently in review by the journal when we made the announcement, and for submissions up to this date. This also helps to ensure that the journal remains sustainable and the costs of publishing these articles are covered, during the transition period Until an article is finally accepted for publication in Nature Communications the editors do not know which publication route an author wishes to opt for, and because Nature Communications has proved very popular with authors (over 1500 submissions every month now) there’s certain to be a substantial number of articles that will publish under the subscription option for the remainder of 2014 and in to 2015. This pipeline of subscription articles will publish throughout 2015, and it is these articles that the site license fee will cover. The site license fee is only for the articles which will publish via a subscription model - these articles are not covered by an APC as the author chose to submit and publish via the subscription model. As 2015 progresses, more and more open access content will be published, but a significant amount will still be subscription content. In effect, Nature Communications continues to be a hybrid subscription journal throughout 2015, but the announcement to authors about the move to a fully open access submission title needed to be made this year, to prepare them for the change in publishing model for 2016. If you have any questions regarding your site license for Nature Communications, please contact your regular NPG rep to discuss your renewal for 2015. If you don’t know your rep, please email [log in to unmask] and we will forward this on to the appropriate rep to get in touch. Kind regards, Amy Bourke Corporate Communications Manager Nature Publishing Group/Palgrave Macmillan E: [log in to unmask] T: 020 7843 4603 | M: +44 (0) 7703717212 On 11/2/14, 10:05 AM, "LIBLICENSE" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >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]