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Today (November 24), the academic publisher Springer Nature announced that, starting in January, authors whose articles are accepted into a Nature-branded journal will have an open-access option for €9,500 (approximately $11,300 US).
The publisher also revealed a pilot project in which authors pay a nonrefundable assessment fee of €2,190 (approximately $2,600 US) to determine whether a manuscript is suitable for a selection of Nature-branded journals, but acceptance is not guaranteed. If a match is found, the authors then pay the remainder of the publication charge and the paper is made open access.
Most Nature titles are subscription journals, meaning that their content sits behind a paywall. Springer Nature has inked contracts with institutions to expand open-access (OA) offerings of its titles, but the Nature suite has typically been excluded. This latest move marks a shift toward making the content in those journals freely accessible to the ...
