Collection updates

Agreement duration: 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2024.

Please note, UNSW corresponding authors can simply comply with the Open Access policy by retaining the rights to the Author Accepted Manuscript and depositing a copy into UNSWorks (via ROS) using a CC-BY licence.

Summary: Nature Portfolio is a division of the international scientific publishing company Springer Nature that publishes academic journals, magazines, online databases, and services in science and medicine. Nature Research's flagship publication is Nature, a weekly multidisciplinary journal first published in 1869.

Agreement details: This agreement covers eligible research articles in Nature Research journals only. Details of the Nature Open Access agreement is detailed in the Nature Open Access Agreement

Titles included: This agreement allows authors from participating institutions to publish open access in 39 titles (shown below) with no transactional APCs. The titles include original research Nature titles but do not include the Nature Reviews titles. 

	Title	ISSN Electronic
1	Nature	1476-4687
2	Nature Aging	2662-8465
3	Nature Astronomy	2397-3366
4	Nature Biomedical Engineering	2157-846x
5	Nature Biotechnology	1546-1696
6	Nature Cancer	2662-1347
7	Nature Cardiovascular Research	2731-0590
8	Nature Catalysis	2520-1158
9	Nature Cell Biology	1476-4679
10	Nature Chemical Biology	1552-4469
11	Nature Chemical Engineering	2948-1198
12	Nature Chemistry	1755-4349
13	Nature Cities	2731-9997
14	Nature Climate Change	1758-6798
15	Nature Computational Science	2662-8457
16	Nature Ecology & Evolution	2397-334x
17	Nature Electronics	2520-1131
18	Nature Energy	2058-7546
19	Nature Food	2662-1355
20	Nature Genetics	1546-1718
21	Nature Geoscience	1752-0908
22	Nature Human Behaviour	2397-3374
23	Nature Immunology	1529-2916
24	Nature Machine Intelligence	2522-5839
25	Nature Materials	1476-4660
26	Nature Medicine	1546-170x
27	Nature Mental Health	2731-6076
28	Nature Metabolism	2522-5812
29	Nature Methods	1548-7105
30	Nature Microbiology	2058-5276
31	Nature Nanotechnology	1748-3395
32	Nature Neuroscience	1546-1726
33	Nature Photonics	1749-4893
34	Nature Physics	1745-2481
35	Nature Plants	2055-0278
36	Nature Structural & Molecular Biology	1545-9985
37	Nature Sustainability	2398-9629
38	Nature Synthesis	2731-0582
39	Nature Water	2731-6084

NB: Nature Communications is not part of this agreement (gold OA journal). Nature Reviews Journals are also not a part of this agreement, as they consist of publishing reviews and commentary articles rather than original research (in the clinical, life, physical, social and earth sciences).

Author eligibility: Is in line with licence terms - all current UNSW researchers including HDR candidates. Affiliation is strictly matched on first corresponding author.

Information for authors: For articles to be published open access under the terms of this agreement, corresponding authors must: select a participating institution as their affiliation in the publisher system and use an institutional email address for a participating institution (see Participating institutions list above) when submitting their article.

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. Corresponding authors may publish immediately to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted, with no transactional APCs. Further information is available for authors, see FAQ's Nature Open Access Agreement. For journal response times between submission and acceptance you should check the specific journal guidelines for accurate information.

Eligible article types: 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 UNSW's institutional repository – view the publisher’s policies for information on embargoes or pay an APC (if applicable) to publish the article open access.

Acceptance date: 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2024.

Number of included articles: This agreement provides for an allowance of 25 articles, which is a collective pool for all 3 participating institutions (Including UNSW). Once the allowance is used, 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.

Sharing via repositories: Inter-library loan is not permitted. Sharing is only permitted for the purpose of non-commercial single educational use, and must be deleted after printing. 

How to submit your article for open access publishing: 

1. The UNSW corresponding author should follow the usual article submission process via Nature Open Access Agreement.

2. On acceptance of the article, the publisher will ask the corresponding author to complete a form (publishing agreement).

3. On acceptance of the manuscript, the payment system will allow UNSW corresponding authors to choose UNSW as their institution and remove the open access fee. Articles from authors at participating institutions will be published under a CC BY licence.

4. To comply with the Open Access policy the UNSW corresponding author will need to retain the rights to either the Published Version of Record or Author Accepted Manuscript, and deposit into UNSWorks using a CC BY licence.

Corresponding authors should not use personal email addresses (e.g. Hotmail, Gmail) or email addresses affiliated with other organisations, research centres or institutes. Otherwise they may be ineligible under the terms of this agreement.

For any queries about this open access publishing agreement please use this short form.