Nature lets authors keep copyright

oever writes "In the latest issue of Nature, it says that the copyright for all articles published by the Nature Publishing Group will remain with the article's authors. (I guess I'll have to publish in Nature from now on.) However, to publish an article in Nature, you still have to agree on some limitations with respect to publishing the article in other media. For example, you can put a PDF on you webpage but it's not allowed to add the article to an archive (Google cache?)."

Comments

Finally

[Xner]

Good to see that a major publication realised the threat that collaborative efforts would pose to its business model in the long run, and decided to take pro-active steps to decrease the discontent among its contributors.

I think it is a wonderful example not only for other journals (Nature is pretty much The Jounal, and if Nature can do it, other publishers are going to seriously consider it), but also for other industries that, when new developments threaten their business model, react in ways that are much more defensive and, ultimately, irritating for all concerned.

Re:Finally

[Anonymous Coward]

What's funny is Nature and other journals make you do most of the layout work yourself. They decide were to break the text to fit in the figures and add page numbers. That's it. The submiter has to get the fonts perfect and do all the typesetting work and then we can't put the PDF online so that people without subscriptions can read it.

At least this lets up put the text and figures online exactly as they appear in the article.