Over the last few years, NPG has separated institutional print and online/site license subscription options to all journals, included Nature branded and NPG's academic and society journals. This change aims to provide customers with a more consistent purchasing policy across the NPG journal collection. It offers the flexibility to select the media most appropriate to institutional budgets and content usage patterns.

(Non-Nature branded journals)

All print subscriptions to non-Nature branded journals (with the exception of BDJ (British Dental Journal)) are accepted and entered on a complete volume basis. Subscriptions commence with the first issue of the current year and expire in December with any print issues already published sent on receipt of payment.

Click here to access a file listing the expected despatch dates for forthcoming issues of Nature Publishing Group and Palgrave Macmillan journals. The file also contains useful data relating to expected delivery times. The file is updated weekly.

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Claims should be made within four months of publication or date of order (whichever is the later).

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EU VAT registered customers

• Subscribers who are registered for VAT in the EU should supply their full VAT registration number. Customers should account for VAT in their own country under the reverse charge procedures.
• European Union (EU) customers will be charged 15% VAT at the UK standard rate for document delivery.

EU Non-VAT registered customers

• Print product subscribers from the following countries who are not registered in the EU for VAT will be charged tax at the relevant rate:
  Austria 10.0%
  Belgium (Nature only) 0.0%
  Belgium (other titles) 6.0%
  Denmark 25.0%
  EIRE 13.5%
  France (Nature only) 2.1%
  France (other titles) 5.5%
  Germany 7.0%
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  Italy 4.0%
  Netherlands 6.0%
  Portugal 5.0%
  Spain 4.0%
  Sweden 6.0%
  
  
• Online product subscribers who are not registered in the EU for VAT will be charged VAT at the UK standard rate of 15.0%

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• Print, online and combined print and online subscriptions are currently not subject to VAT or US sales taxes.
• For document delivery, US customers are not subject to VAT.

Canadian Customers

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• Print product subscribers will be charged Canadian GST at 5%. Subscribers residing in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick should add 13% HST.
• Online products are not subject to either Canadian GST or HST.
• Combined print and online subscriptions will be charged Canadian GST for the print element only of the combined subscription. GST at 5% will be added for 50% only of the combined subscription price, which represents the proportional print element of the combined subscription prices. Subscribers residing in Newfoundlan, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick will be charged 13% HST on 50% of the combined subscription price.

Japan customers

• Print and online subscriptions are currently not subject to VAT or sales taxes.

Rest of world customers

• Print, online and combined print and online subscriptions are currently not subject to VAT or sales taxes.