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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.
NPG expands STM Publishing in Asia-Pacific region
9 January 2006
Read more about NPG's plans to transform its representative company in Japan into the hub of a scientific, technical and medical publishing powerhouse in the Asia-Pacific region, with several major new initiatives already in development.