Nature's open-access journal, death knell for subs model?
Posted by Celia Walter | 1 Feb, 2011The launch by Nature Publishing Group (NPG) of a high-volume open-access journal spanning the natural sciences is being tipped to accelerate the extinction of subscription fees in science publishing, and could also prompt the closure of many specialist journals.
Scientific Reports will launch this summer and will cover biology, chemistry, the earth sciences and physics.
Like the Public Library of Science's PLoS ONE journal, Scientific Reports will be entirely open access and will publish every submission deemed by a faster peer-review process to be technologically sound - including those reporting useful negative results.
The importance of articles will be left to readers to judge via comments and metrics such as how often papers are downloaded, emailed and blogged about.
At $1,350 (£890), Scientific Reports' article-processing charge will be the same as that levied by PLoS ONE - although it is set to rise next year to $1,700.
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