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The journals will charge authors up to €9,500 to make research papers free to read, in a long-awaited alternative to subscription-only publishing.
Publisher Springer Nature has announced how scientists can make their papers in its most selective titles free to read as soon as they are published — part of a long-awaited move to offer open-access publishing in the Nature family of journals.
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Nature 588, 19-20 (2020)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03324-y
Nature to join open-access Plan S, publisher says
Open-access Plan S to allow publishing in any journal
