{"id":755,"date":"2014-12-03T08:44:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T08:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryastrophysics.wordpress.com\/?p=755"},"modified":"2014-12-03T08:44:29","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T08:44:29","slug":"nature-makes-all-articles-free-to-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.iiap.res.in\/collaborate\/?p=755","title":{"rendered":"Nature makes all articles free to view"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Colleagues,<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<p>All research papers from\u00a0<em>Nature\u00a0<\/em>will be made free to read in a proprietary screen-view format that can be annotated but not copied, printed or downloaded, the journal\u2019s publisher Macmillan\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/press_releases\/share-nature-content.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a>\u00a0on 2 December.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.iiap.res.in\/?_task=mail&amp;_uid=23150&amp;_mbox=Sent&amp;_action=get&amp;_part=2.2&amp;_embed=1&amp;_mimeclass=image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/nature-makes-all-articles-free-to-view-1.16460\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nNature makes all articles free to view<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/investigations-launched-into-artificial-tracheas-1.16431\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Investigations launched into artificial tracheas<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/bullet-proof-armour-and-hydrogen-sieve-add-to-graphene-s-promise-1.16425\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bullet-proof armour and hydrogen sieve add to graphene\u2019s promise<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The content-sharing policy, which also applies to 48 other journals in Macmillan\u2019s Nature Publishing Group (NPG) division, including\u00a0<em>Nature Genetics<\/em>,<em>\u00a0Nature Medicine\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Nature Physics<\/em>, marks an attempt to let scientists freely read and share articles while preserving NPG\u2019s primary source of income \u2014 the subscription fees libraries and individuals pay to gain access to articles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.readcube.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ReadCube<\/a>, a software platform similar to Apple\u2019s iTunes, will be used to host and display read-only versions of the articles&#8217; PDFs. If the initiative becomes popular, it may also boost the prospects of the ReadCube platform, in which Macmillan has a majority investment.<\/p>\n<p>Annette Thomas, chief executive of Macmillan Science and Education, says that under the policy, subscribers can share any paper they have access to through a link to a read-only version of the paper\u2019s PDF that can be viewed through a web browser. For institutional subscribers, that means every paper dating back to the journal&#8217;s foundation in 1869, while personal subscribers get access from 1997 on.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone can subsequently repost and share this link. Around 100 media outlets and blogs will also be able to share links to read-only PDFs. Although the screen-view PDF cannot be printed, it can be annotated \u2014 which the publisher says will provide a way for scientists to collaborate by sharing their comments on manuscripts. PDF articles can also be saved to a free desktop version of ReadCube, similarly to how music files can be saved in iTunes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know researchers are already sharing content, often in hidden corners of the Internet or using clumsy, time-consuming practices,\u201d said a statement by Timo Hannay, the managing director of Digital Science, a division of Macmillan that has invested in ReadCube. \u201cAt Digital Science we have the technology to provide a convenient, legitimate alternative that allows researchers to access the information they need and the wider, interested public access to scientific knowledge, from the definitive, original source,\u201d Hannay said.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h1>Related stories<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/doifinder\/10.1038\/495426a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open access: The true cost of science publishing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/specials\/scipublishing\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nature special: the future of publishing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/news\/2014\/11\/gates-foundation-announces-worlds-strongest-policy-on-open-access-research.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gates Foundation announces world&#8217;s strongest policy on open-access research<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/nature-makes-all-articles-free-to-view-1.16460?WT.ec_id=NEWS-20141202#related-links\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More related stories<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The policy comes as research funders are increasingly mandating that scientists make their papers free to read, download and reuse in various other ways.\u00a0<em>Nature<\/em>\u00a0and its sister journals already allow scientists to freely archive online the peer-reviewed manuscripts of their papers, but only after a delay of six months following publication. And papers published in some NPG journals \u2014 38% of all papers NPG published this year, says Thomas \u2014 are already being made free to read immediately on publication, a \u2018gold open-access\u2019 model in which publishers charge authors or their funders, rather than subscribers, for publishing each paper.<\/p>\n<p>But Thomas says that she expects that the subscription and the open-access business models would exist side by side for a long time to come. Philip Campbell, the editor-in-chief of\u00a0<em>Nature<\/em>\u00a0and the other\u00a0<em>Nature<\/em>-branded journals, has said that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/doifinder\/10.1038\/495426a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Nature<\/em>&#8216;s internal costs of publishing<\/a>\u00a0run at \u00a320,000\u201330,000 (US$31,000\u201347,000) per paper, an extremely high charge to load onto authors or funders rather than spread over subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Initial reactions to the policy have been mixed. Some note that it is far from allowing full open access to papers. \u201cTo me, this smacks of public relations, not open access,\u201d says John Wilbanks, a strong advocate of open-access publishing in science and a senior fellow at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. \u201cWith access mandates on the march around the world, this appears to be more about getting ahead of the coming reality in scientific publishing. Now that the funders call the tune and the funders want the articles on the web at no charge, these articles are going to be open anyway,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Suber, director of the Office for Scholarly Communication at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, says that the programme is a step forward. But, he notes, if authors prefer to share links to PDFs rather than actually deposit their manuscripts in an online repository, the programme could be a step backward, because repositories host copies independently from the publisher, and those copies can be printed or saved and are generally more reusable than a screen-only file.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas says that the publisher intends the policy as a pilot and will be evaluating it over the coming year. She says that she expects libraries and personal users to continue to subscribe to the journal, but also that scientists would embrace the new sharing model. Other science publishers, such as Wiley, use ReadCube to display preview versions of their papers, so it is possible that the same idea might spread to others, Thomas adds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<dl>\n<dd>Nature<\/dd>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<dd><abbr title=\"Digital Object Identifier\">doi<\/abbr>:10.1038\/nature.2014.16460<\/dd>\n<dd><\/dd>\n<dd><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div>With Regards,<\/div>\n<div>Librarian<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Colleagues, All research papers from\u00a0Nature\u00a0will be made free to read in a proprietary screen-view format that can be annotated but not copied, printed or downloaded, the journal\u2019s publisher Macmillan\u00a0announced\u00a0on 2 December. 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