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Nature to join open-access Plan S, publisher says

Springer Nature says it commits to offering researchers a route to publishing open access in Nature and most Nature-branded journals from 2021.
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  1. Richard Van Noorden
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After a change in the rules of the bold open-access (OA) initiative known as Plan S, publisher Springer Nature said on 8 April that many of its non-OA journals — including Nature — were now committed to joining the plan, pending discussion of further technical details.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01066-5

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  • Update 14 April 2020: This story has been updated with details of the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s position on Plan S.

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