{"id":11487,"date":"2014-12-05T11:26:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T11:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/?p=11487"},"modified":"2014-12-05T15:51:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T15:51:51","slug":"content-sharing-is-not-open-access-and-why-npg-is-committed-to-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/2014\/12\/05\/content-sharing-is-not-open-access-and-why-npg-is-committed-to-both","title":{"rendered":"Content sharing is *not* open access and why NPG is committed to both"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not an exaggeration to say that we\u2019ve been overwhelmed this week with the response to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/press_releases\/share-nature-content.html\">announcement<\/a> that we are enabling sharing of subscription content on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/\">nature.com<\/a>. We anticipated that people would be interested, and hoped some of our readers and library customers would welcome it.\u00a0 We want to help researchers share papers they are reading, and our goal was to make that easier.<\/p>\n<p>This initiative has been welcomed by many, but it has also raised some concern and confusion. \u00a0Digital Science\u2019s Managing Director, Timo Hannay, eloquently captures our intentions, and deals with some of the issues raised over on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digital-science.com\/blog\/news\/nature-com-content-sharing-action-and-reaction\/\" target=\"_blank\">his blog\u00a0post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most discussed aspects has been about open access. Open access, and NPG\u2019s support for it, is such an important issue that we want to definitively address it here.<\/p>\n<p>So that there is no confusion:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nature Publishing Group is committed to supporting open access, open data and open research<\/li>\n<li>That commitment is shared by Macmillan Science and Education (our parent company) and our sister organizations Digital Science and Palgrave Macmillan<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0The content sharing initiative we announced this week is *not* open access<\/li>\n<li>We continue to increase our OA options, from <em>Nature Communications<\/em> and <em>Scientific Reports<\/em> to our new Nature Partner Journals and much more.<\/li>\n<li>We continue to encourage authors to self-archive, in line with our policy, and to help them to do so<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is not a step back from open access or an attempt to undermine it. We see content sharing as an additional offering to open access, not instead of it.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve been active in open access since 2004 (more on that later), so we know that open access is a lot more than something being free to read.\u00a0 But this can be confusing for the uninitiated. What\u2019s the difference between \u201cfree\u201d and \u201copen\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>There is no better explanation than Peter Suber\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.earlham.edu\/~peters\/fos\/overview.htm\">overview<\/a>. But briefly, an open access article is free to all immediately on publication, and forever, and allows reuse and redistribution rights. To many, \u201copen access\u201d means licensed under a <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/uk\/\">Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY license. We offer CC-BY on all the open access journals and hybrid journals we own, and the majority of titles we publish on behalf of societies.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For authors and readers who want open access to research:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nature Publishing Group publish 64 journals [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/libraries\/open_access\/oa_pub_models.html\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/libraries\/open_access\/oa_pub_models.html<\/a>] with an open access option (we publish just over 100 journals in total)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our fastest growing journal is the open access <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/srep\/index.html\">Scientific Reports<\/a><\/em>, publishing more than\u00a07,000 papers to date in 2014<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In 2013, 38% of the research we published was open access; we expect that to hit 50% in 2015<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/press_releases\/ncomms-oa.html\"><em>Nature Communications<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>is to\u00a0become\u00a0our first Nature-branded\u00a0fully open access journal\u00a0in 2015<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This year we launched <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/sdata\/\">Scientific Data<\/a><\/em>, an open access publication to support open data and open science<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We have launched more than 10 open access journals this year alone (including our rapidly growing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/content\/NPJ\/index.html%5d\">Nature Partner Journals<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Authors can opt for a Creative Commons Attribution license on *all* our fully open access journals, and all NPG-owned hybrid journals<\/p>\n<p>We have encouraged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/authors\/policies\/license.html\" target=\"_blank\">self-archiving <\/a>of accepted manuscripts since 2005, and since 2008 have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/authors\/author_resources\/deposition.html\">deposited<\/a> thousands of manuscripts in PubMed Central on behalf of authors, free of charge. These are all in the PubMed Central open access subset, as we have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/authors\/policies\/license.html\" target=\"_blank\">licensed them <\/a>for\u00a0non-commercial text and data-mining. Where we do not deposit direct, we encourage authors to deposit their manuscripts in appropriate repositories as well as share the link to their research.<\/p>\n<p>Content sharing is quite different &#8211; the 49 journals participating in this initiative are mostly available only to subscribers. We are offering something additional for subscribers at no additional cost, as an experiment, to learn how to meet the needs of researchers better. As Timo says, \u201ceverything you could previously do to access and share journal content you can still do today\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>We remain convinced that we are trying something new to help researchers collaborate, and provide the public with a way to read scientific content that has not been available to them before. We are very clear that this is complementary to, not an alternative to, our many open access and open research activities (in Boolean logic: \u201cAND\u201d not \u201cOR\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>We welcome feedback and informed debate on whether this experiment is useful and interesting. We\u2019re learning much from the criticism, although speaking honestly it is difficult for people here to see cynical motives ascribed to us, and our many open access developments disregarded in the heat of the debate.<\/p>\n<p>We know that many people have read the <em>Nature<\/em> news piece on this topic. That is an editorially independent news piece, not an announcement. Our announcement is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/press_releases\/share-nature-content.html\">here<\/a>. We have also published our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/npg_\/company_info\/content-sharing-policy.html\">guidelines<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/npg_\/company_info\/content-sharing-tandc.html\">terms of use<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/2014\/12\/02\/publishing-initiative-makes-research-widely-available-to-read-and-share\">some videos<\/a> to help explain.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Inchcoombe, CEO of Nature Publishing Group and Palgrave Macmillan<\/p>\n<p>Grace Baynes, Head of Communications, Nature Publishing Group and Palgrave Macmillan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not an exaggeration to say that we\u2019ve been overwhelmed this week with the response to our announcement that we are enabling sharing of subscription content on nature.com. We anticipated people would be interested, and hoped some of our readers and library customers would welcome it.\u00a0 We want to help researchers share papers they are reading, and our goal was to make that easier.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/2014\/12\/05\/content-sharing-is-not-open-access-and-why-npg-is-committed-to-both#more-11487\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}