Sponsorship Opportunities
Nature Publishing Group Sponsorship Options
NPG has a vibrant and creative program of sponsorship opportunities. These extend the services that NPG provides to the research community, in the form of enhanced print products, innovative web projects and cutting-edge meetings and conferences.
Current sponsorship opportunities include:
Nature Insights
Insights are thematic overviews of key areas of science. Each Insight comprises a thorough collection of review articles commissioned from the leading experts in that field. Insights are published as an integral part of Nature and are also distributed separately to meetings and subscribers of other Nature-branded titles. Topics are diverse and have included AIDS, the future of electronics, obesity, proteomics, astrobiology and functional genomics.
Nature Milestones
Nature Milestones provide thematic educational overviews of the techniques that have been pivotal in the acceleration of selected topics within basic research over the past 20-30 years. Some of the key findings and discoveries that have been celebrated in past Milestones publications have included Cell Division, Development, Gene Expression and Cancer. Milestones are an integral part of Nature and are also circulated to subscribers of other Nature branded titles.
Nature Outlooks
Outlooks are sponsored supplements that explore a scientific topic of interest to practising scientists and society as a whole in a format free from the constraints of the weekly journal. An Outlook can draw on previously published research and editorial from Nature and its sister journals, and enhance this package with specifically commissioned journalistic articles and factsheets that discuss the science in the context of current economic, social and political challenges. An Outlook is therefore an authoritative and unique publication that offers an overview of a topic in a timely and accessible fashion, to the standard of excellence synonymous with Nature. In addition to the proposed list of topics already being developed for the Outlooks portfolio, Nature is open to ideas from potential sponsors that dovetail with our editorial mission and values.
Reprint supplements
Nature and Nature Review journals often collect prominent papers in areas where spectacular progress has been made in a separate reprinted supplement. Such compilations are popular within the scientific community and provide an opportunity for sponsors to showcase their contribution and commitment to a specific topic. Past reprint collections have featured subjects such as cancer vaccines, microscopy, therapeutic proteins, RNAi and microarrays. These supplements can be distributed either as printed copies or as digital editions.
Conferences
NPG has recently organised several very successful conferences. These events have provided exposure for many sponsoring companies, not only to the attending delegates and the immediate community, but also through press coverage to an even wider audience.As with all NPG projects, topics covered within these conferences are diverse and have included oncogenomics, realising genomic medicine and antisense RNA.
Web portals, gateways & special focuses
NPG has been at the forefront of online science communication with the Signalling Gateway, the Omics Gateway, the RNAi Gateway and the Physics Portal. More specific and targeted web focuses have also been successfully launched by NPG on subjects such as malaria, tuberculosis and imaging in cell biology..
Posters and Calendars
Nature and Nature-branded titles often prepare posters or calendars to accompany special issues or conferences. These are extremely popular with researchers in the field and offer immediate impact for sponsors.
Our dedicated Business Development team works with individual sponsors to ensure that both the sponsor and the scientific community receive maximum benefit with each of these projects.
For further information on any of the sponsorship opportunities available at NPG, please contact:
Amélie Pequignot for Nature
E: a.pequignot@nature.com
T: +44 (0) 20 7843 4974
David Bagshaw for Life Science titles
E: d.bagshaw@natureny.com
T: +1 (212) 726 9215
Graham Combe for BioPharma Titles which include Nature Biotechnology, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, Nature Methods and Nature Medicine
E: g.combe@nature.com
T: + 44 (0) 20 7843 4914
