Nature

This agreement covers Nature, the world's leading multidisciplinary science journal, first published in 1869 and original Nature research journals across the life, physical, clinical and social sciences. 

The agreement covers Nature Research journals only and allows La Trobe authors to publish open access in 39 Nature titles with no transactional Article Processing Charges. The titles include original research Nature titles but do not include the Nature Reviews titles. 

This is a shared capped agreement, and the cap applies to La Trobe and the other universities participating in the agreement, as a group.  Once the cap is reached, responsible corresponding authors of any additional articles accepted in 2024 may choose to publish articles as "closed access" or to pay an APC for the article to be published open access.

Agreement Duration: 1st January 2024 - 31st December 2024

This agreement allows authors from participating institutions to publish open access in 39 titles with no transactional APCs. The titles include original research Nature titles but do not include the Nature Reviews titles. 
The list of Nature Portfolio journals included in this agreement is available as a downloadable spreadsheet on the SpringerNature Open Access agreement page, under the heading "Publishing open access in a Nature Portfolio journal".

Included: Hybrid titles

Excluded: Gold open access journals; Nature Review Journals.

Note that Nature Communications is a gold Open Access journal and therefore not included in this agreement.

Open access publishing covered under this Read & Publish agreement is for original research papers, generally presenting new results. Articles published under this article type comprise the following Original Research article types:

• Analysis
• Article
• Letter
• Brief Communication
• Registered Report
• Resource
• Technical Report

Authors who wish to make excluded article types openly available may choose to:

• Publish “closed access” and deposit the Author’s Accepted Manuscript in their institutional repository – view the publisher’s policies for information on embargoes.
• Pay an APC (if applicable) to publish the article open access.

Articles accepted from 1 January to 31 December 2024 are eligible to be published as open access under this agreement.

Please note: For articles to be published open access under the terms of this agreement, corresponding authors must:

• use an institutional email address when submitting their article (name@latrobe.edu.au)
• select a participating institution as their affiliation in the publisher system (ie La Trobe University)

Corresponding authors should not use personal email addresses (e.g. hotmail, gmail). Doing so may result in delayed approval of the article or the article may not be approved to be published open access under the terms of the agreement.
 

How to submit your article

• Follow the publisher's usual article submission process via the journal/s homepage
• One acceptance of the article, the publisher will ask the corresponding author to complete a publishing agreeement
• The corresponding author selects open access and confirms the licence type (CC-BY)
• The APC is automatically waived for authors from participating institutions who have used their institutional email  (name@latrobe.edu.au) AND selected as their participating institutional affiliation (La Trobe University) from the available list.

Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under the author's choice of the following licences:

• CC-BY

Authors retain all rights as per the CC license.

CC BY is the main licence type offered by Springer Nature journals.  Other CC licences types may be accommodated by request.

The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors. Authors retain copyright.

Researchers who require a CC BY-NC-ND licence should contact the editors for the relevant journal. 

Researchers who require other CC BY licence types should contact the editors for the relevant journal.

The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors