Three significant new additions to the Nature Research open access portfolio: Communications Biology, Chemistry and Physics!

Nature Research is expanding its portfolio of open access titles to include a family of three new, high quality, selective, open access multidisciplinary journals, Communications Biology, Communications Chemistry and Communications Physics.  The journals will be online-only and publish open access content under a CC-BY license. The launch is part of Nature Research’s ongoing commitment to providing increasing options for authors to choose open access publishing and builds on the stable of open access titles published by Springer Nature, already the biggest open access publisher globally.   “We hope the new Communications journals follow the successes of the two other major multidisciplinary journals within the Nature Research open access portfolio, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports.  Both of these journals have made major strides since their launches in 2010 and 2011 respectively, attracting continuously increasing numbers of submissions and, in turn, continuously increasing numbers of publications,” commented Dr Nandita Quaderi, Nature Research Publishing Director, Open Research. “The appetite for high quality open access options is at an all-time high and projected to continue to grow.  In a recent survey of almost 8,000 Springer Nature authors, 67% of respondents agreed or strongly agreed that open access is the future of academic and scientific publishing.  We believe that Nature Research, with its rigorous editorial standards and highly qualified...
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