'What's new?' archive
Nature Publishing Group announces the launch of Nature Photonics
22 December 2006
NPG is delighted to announce the launch of Nature Photonics, a new research journal dedicated to the best photonics research from academia and industry.
European Molecular Biology Organization announces an option for author-paid open access articles in The EMBO Journal and EMBO reports
12 December 2006
European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and Nature Publishing Group (NPG) are pleased to announce that from January 2007 The EMBO Journal and EMBO reports will accept open access articles, subject to payment of a publication fee.
Nature Publishing Group announces the launch of two new free Gateways
6 December 2006
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is delighted to announce the launch of two new freely available information resources: The Functional Glycomics Gateway and the Pathway Interaction Database.
Winner of the SLA Europe Dissertation Prize
30 November 2006
NPG is very proud of Tanya O'Rourke, Project Manager, who recently won the SLA Europe Dissertation Prize for her dissertation exploring the effect of voluntary turnover on an organization’s intellectual capital base and strategies to minimise the consequential impact on the effective achievement of strategic objectives. For more information and an interview with Ms. O'Rourke, please see the 2006 Issue 3 of SLA Europe News below.
NPG supports OARE
8 November 2006
NPG is proud to be a founding partner of Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE). The recently launched initiative makes global scientific research in the environmental sciences available online to eligible institutions in the developing world for free or at nominal cost.
ISME and NPG announce a new publication: The ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial
18 October 2006
Nature Publishing Group (NPG), in partnership with the International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME) today announces the launch of a new international publication; The ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology. The journal will be available in print and online from May 2007 (www.nature.com/ismej).
2007 catalog now available!
18 October 2006
Download a PDF of the 2007 catalog, including information on all the latest publications.
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Nature Publishing Group announces the launch of Nature Nanotechnology
4 October 2006
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is delighted to announce the launch of Nature Nanotechnology, a new research journal dedicated to all aspects of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
Nature Publishing Group offers access through ATHENS
02 October 2006
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is pleased to announce that nature.com is now ATHENS compliant. Remote access through ATHENS is essential to how the academic and medical communities use online subscriptions, and NPG is delighted to now be able to support this important channel.
A podcast for World Heart Day from Nature Clinical Practice and the World Heart Federation
22 September 2006
The World Heart Federation and Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine are delighted to announce their collaboration on the creation of an original podcast to mark the occasion of World Heart Day 2006. The podcast is supported by an educational grant from Sanofi-Aventis, and is now entirely free to access online at www.nature.com/ncpcardio/podcast. It is also available to download on the iTunes website.
Nature Publishing Group Letter to Customers 2006
6 September 2006
The annual letter to institutional customers is now available, with news of launches and important technical and policy developments at NPG.
Nature Publishing Group launches its first all Japanese language publication
7 August 2006
Nature Digest, is comprised of a monthly selection of news, news features, and opinion articles translated into Japanese from Nature and NPG's daily online news service news@nature.com.
Peter Ashman, Publisher Clinical Medicine, talks about the NCP series
Read Peter's interview by KnowledgeSpeak, where he discusses the challenges of launching new journals and the progress made, impact factors and mobile technology.
NPG journals to open access to online archives
1 August 2006
NPG's academic and society journals are opening access to all content published before 2003, from January 2007. This policy helps clarify the amount of content associated with an NPG site license.
Change in model for The EMBO Journal and EMBO reports
From 2007, The EMBO Journal and EMBO reports will uncouple the sale of the print and site license products. The two journals will continue to be sold together as a combined package only, but customers will now have the choice of purchasing this package in print, as a site license or both. Please contact your sales representative if you have questions.
Change in model for BDJ (British Dental Journal), EBD (Evidence-Based Dentistry) and Vital
From 2007, the above journals will uncouple the sale of the print and site license products. Customers will now have the choice of purchasing this package in print, as a site license or both. Please contact your sales representative if you have questions.
Further Nature Clinical Practice journals selected for inclusion in MEDLINE
NPG unveils groundbreaking protocol resource Nature Protocols
Nature Publishing Group announces NPG/GRC Awards
20 June 2006
New award will help potential delegates from developing countries attend the Internationally renowned Gordon Research Confernces (GRC).
Nature Publishing Group announces launch of Neuroscience Gateway
4 May 2006
A free online resource for cutting-edge neuroscience research, in collaboration with the Allen Institute for Brain Science.
Nature focuses on peer review
9 June 2006
Nature is hosting a web debate on the peer review process, alongside a limited trial of open peer view.
Nature archive reaches 1950, and keeps going back.
NPG will acquire three exciting new journals in January 2007
25 April 2006
The American Society for Clinical Pharmacology journal, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
The Australasian Society for Immunology journal, Immunology and Cell Biology
The American Society of Gene Therapy journal, Molecular Therapy
Nature Clinical Practice (NCP) journals get new affiliations
21 April 2006
Nature Publishing Group expands into India, Latin America and Spain
Nature Protocols launches in BETA phase
21 March 2006
NPG's new resource for online protocol sharing has launched at www.natureprotocols.com. Preview content and functionality before launch in June 2006.
NPG announces first mixed access model
15 March 2006
The British Pharmacological Society has introduced an option for author paid access articles in the British Journal of Pharmacology, alongside the traditional subscription model.
New Connotea software supports institutional repositories
10 March 2006
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has released new software for integrating institutional repositories with the social bookmarking services Connotea and del.icio.us. The project was fully funded by JISC.
NPG to publish Immunology and Cell Biology
27 February 2006
NPG partners with the Australasian Society for Immunology (ASI) to publish in partnership with the Society its flagship journal, Immunology and Cell Biology, from January 2007.
Conferences February-June 2006
Click here for information on which conferences NPG representatives will attending during the first half of the year. Email now to make your appointment.
Nature Podcast achieves record downloads and first sponsorship agreement
The Nature Podcast has successfully completed its pilot phase with a record number of downloads and a sponsorship agreement with Bio-Rad Laboratories.
NPG supports CLOCKSS
Click here for more information on Controlled use of LOCKSS.
New publications coming soon!
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Nature Protocols.com
Launching: June 2006 - Pre-publication pricing now available!
Nature Protocols.com will be an interactive online resource for laboratory protocols with a unique mix of contributing sources. A database of topical, peer-reviewed protocols researched by an editorial team will be complemented by functionality allowing the scientific community to post their own protocols and comment on or rank those posted by others. Scope will cover the life sciences and chemistry.
Nature Nanotechnology
Launching: October 2006 - Pre-publication pricing now available!
Nanotechnology addresses the design, characterization, production and application of structures, devices and systems by the manipulation of materials at atomic, molecular and macromolecular scales. Of interest to physicists, chemists as well as materials and life scientists, Nature Nanotechnology will take a balanced approach to the field publishing editorials and commentaries, research highlights and reviews.
Nature Photonics
Launching: January 2007 - Pre-publication pricing now available!
Nature Photonics will publish editorials and commentaries, research highlights and reviews of the key advances in photonics, and will foster the exchange of ideas between researchers in different communities. Photonics addresses all fields of research dealing with light creation, detection and manipulation as well as the interaction and combination of electronic and optical components.
