Researchers from low- and lower-middle-income countries will now be able to publish for free in Nature and 36 other Nature research journals, as the company expands its waiver policies to include its flagship titles.
Under open access publishing, readers can access published papers for free but researchers or their institutions have to pay article processing charges to get their manuscripts published.
"[Article processing charges can be] equivalent to about two years' salary of a full professor in Nigeria and many other African countries," explained Segun Fatumo, an associate professor of genetic epidemiology and bioinformatics at the Medical Research Centre/Uganda Virus Research Institute. Marcelo Aizen, a professor of ecology at the National University of Comahue in Argentina, agreed with Fatumo. He said monthly salaries for top scientists in Argentina round up to about US$1,000, and annual grants round up to US$3,000 so they are simply not able to afford the publication costs of most prestigious academic journals.
While Nature and other top-tier journals usually charge readers to access research papers, Nature's parent company Springer Nature announced in late 2020 that researchers would be able to publish their manuscripts in the main Nature journal and 32 other Nature journals under the so-called Gold OA model, where articles are freely accessible as soon as they are published.
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