Details
This agreement covers OA publications in 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. Information about the agreement is available on the Nature Open Access Agreement page.
Agreement duration
1st of January 2025 - 31st December 2025 or until the annual publishing cap is reached.
Titles included
List of titles included in the current agreement
Important information for University of Sydney authors
- To be eligible under this agreement, corresponding authors must use their authorised University of Sydney institutional email address: name@sydney.edu.au
- i.e. john.smith@sydney.edu.au or sarah.jones@sydney.edu.au
- For students: use the authorised student email address - the “UniKey” followed by @uni.sydney.edu.au
- i.e. xyz4321@uni.sydney.edu.au
- Do not use personal email addresses [i.e. Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail etc.]
- Do not use email addresses affiliated with other research centres, institutes, or similar organisations.
- Use of prohibited email address above results to author’s ineligibility under this agreement.
- Authors are eligible to publish in Hybrid open access titles under this agreement.
- Authors are ineligible to publish in Gold open access titles.
- Authors are ineligible to publish in Nature “Review” journals.
Eligible article types
Research Articles
Number of included articles
See Research Services Librarian for details.
Acceptance date
Eligible articles that have an acceptance date during the term of this agreement are eligible to be published as open access.
Information on submitting articles for Open Access publishing
- Follow Nature’s article submission guidelines and processes on its “For Authors” webpage. More information on publishing open access in Nature journal may be found on their website.
- The author, on acceptance of their paper, is informed by the publisher of their Open Access publishing options. Author may select to publish OA at no APC charge when they submit their License to Publish form.
- Articles by authors, at participating institutions, will be published under these Creative Commons license. CC BY or CC BY-NC.
Support
For queries or support please contact a Research Services Librarian.