'What's new?' archive
Nature Publishing Group to produce online videos of Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
3 July 2009
Nature Publishing Group and the Foundation Lindau Nobelprizewinners Meetings at Lake Constance have signed an agreement to collaborate in the production of online videos of this year's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on chemistry, being held this week in Lindau on Lake Constance (www.lindau-nobel.de).
Charlesworth helps Nature Publishing Group semantically enrich PDFs
30 June 2009
In partnership with Nature Publishing Group, specialist publishing services provider The Charlesworth Group has completed a substantial project to incorporate eXtensible Metadata Platform (XMP) metadata within online PDFs for the leading science journal Nature.
New and established NPG titles dominate 2008 Journal Citation Reports
25 June 2009
Nature maintains its position as the number one weekly science journal, with a new Impact Factor of 31.434. Nature Publishing Group (NPG) publishes 16 of the top 50 journals in the 2008 JCR, twice as many as any other scientific publisher.
Bright start for Nature Photonics with first Impact Factor
25 June 2009
Nature Photonics' first Impact Factor of 24.982 clearly demonstrates the importance of this new title. The journal ranks first in both the optics and applied physics categories of the Science Edition of the 2008 Journal Citation Report (JCR).
Scientific American forms consumer media division of Nature Publishing Group
22 June 2009
This week the Scientific American team will join their Nature Publishing Group (NPG) colleagues in the existing NPG offices in Varick Street, New York City. The office move marks a major step in the integration of two of Macmillan Publishers' most dynamic publishing units. Scientific American will form the heart of a new consumer media division at NPG.
Nature Publishing Group allows data- and text-mining on self-archived manuscripts
18 June 2009
NPG will explicitly permit academic reuse of archived author manuscripts. Head of Content Licensing David Hoole announced the development today at the OAI6 meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.
Nature honored as 'journal of the century' at SLA meeting
16 June 2009
Nature was today named 'journal of the century' by the BioMedical & Life Sciences Division (DBIO) of the Special Libraries Association (SLA).
InnoCentive and Nature Publishing Group launch nature.com Open Innovation Pavilion
2 June 2009
Jointly hosted on InnoCentive.com and nature.com, www.nature.com/openinnovation, the nature.com Open Innovation Pavilion provides a hub for scientific collaboration and open innovation.
World Scientific and Nature Publishing Group's first book collaboration
28 May 2009
World Scientific Publishing Company and Nature Publishing Group are pleased to announce their first co-publishing project. Entitled Nanoscience and Technology: A Collection of Reviews from NATURE Journals, the publishers will launch the book in October 2009 at Frankfurt Book Fair.
Nature Publishing Group to co-publish Cellular & Molecular Immunology
21 May 2009
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) will co-publish Cellular & Molecular Immunology from January 2010. NPG today announces a newly signed publishing agreement with the Chinese Society of Immunology (CSI) and the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). Cellular & Molecular Immunology (CMI) is the flagship international journal of CSI and USTC.
Palgrave Macmillan Access All Areas 2009
05 May 2009
Palgrave Macmillan, the academic and professional publishing division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd, announced today that we will offer free online access to our complete journals and online reference portfolio from 1st to 31st May 2009 at www.palgrave.com/accessallareas
Five NPG journals among the 100 most influential journals in Biology & Medicine
6 April 2009
In celebration of the Special Libraries Association's (SLA) Centennial, the BioMedical & Life Sciences Division conducted a poll to identify the 100 most influential journals of Biology & Medicine over the last 100 years. We're delighted that five NPG journals have been selected. Congratulations go to:
EMBO Journal
Nature
Nature Biotechnology
Nature Genetics
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Awards for the top 10 journals in the poll and Journal of Century will be announced at the DBIO luncheon at the SLA conference in June.
InnoCentive and Nature Publishing Group announce partnership to facilitate open innovation
20 March 2009
InnoCentive and NPG will work together to stimulate the involvement of scientists worldwide in solving global scientific challenges, via an online marketplace for problems and their solutions.
Nature Chemistry's first issue reinvents how NPG publishes chemistry
19 March 2009
The first issue of Nature Chemistry goes live today. The latest physical sciences journal from Nature Publishing Group (NPG), Nature Chemistry's inaugural issue covers the breadth of chemistry, from inorganic microtubes to theoretical studies of how water behaves in detonations.
Join the NPG Libraries group on Nature Network.
3 March 2009
The NPG Libraries group was just launched last week and is already listed as the most active group on Nature Network. Librarians from around the world and NPG staff working in the library community exchange dialogue about the latest developments in the publishing and library management.
Add your thoughts and join the group at http://network.nature.com/groups/libraries
Open access option now available on European Journal of Human Genetics
3 March 2009
Authors publishing research in European Journal of Human Genetics (EJHG) can now opt to make their articles open access.
New user guide now available
Forum discussion: Does your institution use SUSHI, and if so what are your experiences so far?
27 February 2009
NPG's new usage statistics reporting service provides upgraded COUNTER-compliant reports that meet COUNTER Release 3 requirements and work with SUSHI (Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative). Does your library use SUSHI, and if so what are your experiences so far?
Join the discussion here: http://network.nature.com/groups/library/forum/topics/4075
Log in to Nature Networks to discuss industry questions with other librarians.
First time users need to create an account.
Darwin-themed island launches in Second Life
25 February 2009
The Elucian Islands, the Second Life home of Nature Publishing Group and Macmillan Publishers, today celebrates the launch of a new Charles Darwin - themed island. The lush re-creation of South America and the Galapagos Islands includes a Second Life-scale replica of HMS Beagle and an interactive, educational game, Notes from the Voyage.
New usage statistic reporting available for NPG and PMJ
25 February 2009
NPG and PM unveil a new usage reporting service, offering timely reports compliant with the new COUNTER Release 3 and SUSHI, provided by MPS Insight.
Digital Lives conference invites virtual delegates to Elucian Islands
29 January 2009
On 11 February, virtual delegates can join The Digital Lives Research Conference on the Elucian Islands, the Second Life home of Nature Publishing Group and Macmillan Publishers. The conference will be broadcast live from the British Library in London, UK.
Nature Reviews goes clinical
28 January 2009
In April 2009, the eight Nature Clinical Practice journals will be rebranded Nature Reviews, increasing the size of the Nature Reviews portfolio from seven to fifteen titles.
Nature Network takes a bite out of the Big Apple
27 January 2009
Nature Network, the professional networking website for scientists, today launches a 'hub' dedicated to New York City.
Expanded green and gold routes to open access at Nature Publishing Group
22 January 2009
Eleven more journals published by Nature Publishing Group (NPG) are offering an open access option from January 2009. NPG has also expanded its Manuscript Deposition Service to include 32 further titles.
Molecular Therapy rolls out open access and article deposition services for authors
22 January 2009
The American Society of Gene Therapy and Nature Publishing Group (NPG) are pleased to announce the introduction of two new services to help authors comply with funder and institutional mandates for public access.
New content and functionality for Nature Chemical Biology
22 January 2009
Based on feedback from the chemical biology community, new content and online functionality has been integrated into Nature Chemical Biology. The new online resources will improve how readers access and use chemical information in published papers. Read the editorial here, or view illustrations of the online enhancements here.
Nature Publishing Group to co-publish Polymer Journal with the Society of Polymer Science, Japan
8 January 2009
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and the Society of Polymer Science, Japan (SPSJ) today announce a publishing partnership for Polymer Journal. NPG will co-publish Polymer Journal with SPSJ from January 2010.
Nature Education launches free education website fit for Generation Y
7 January 2009
Nature Education today launches Scitable, a free, online educational resource for undergraduate biology students and educators. Scitable is the first product launch from Nature Education, a division of Nature Publishing Group.
