Greetings all, we have just delivered our petition to managing editors at Springer Nature, calling on them to reinstate access to censored articles in China. We will be stepping up pressure on them in the coming weeks. In the meantime, Inside Higher Education took up the story and received a statement from Springer Nature editors admitting to their censorship: In a statement provided to Inside Higher Ed, Springer Nature acknowledged that “a small percentage of our content (less than 1 percent) is limited in mainland China” and said it is “required to take account of the local rules and regulations in the countries in which we distribute our published content.” “This is not editorial censorship and does not affect the content we publish or make accessible elsewhere in the world. It is a local content access decision in China done to comply with specific local regulations,” the publisher said. “In not taking action we ran the very real risk of all of our content being blocked. We do not believe that it is in the interests of our authors, customers or the wider scientific and academic community, or to the advancement of research for us to be banned from distributing our content in China.” This is the same justification offered initially by Cambridge University Press. In our email to them, we let them know that, "We do not accept any claim that such censorship is merely about following the laws of another country."