5 April - 18 October 2001
Future e-access to the primary literature
The topic of this Nature forum - the impact of the Web on the publishing of the results of original research - has, since the emergence of the Internet, filled volumes in the reports of conference proceedings and reams of individual articles. The main aim of this forum is to bring some of the substance of this Brownian motion of Internet issues to a broader grassroots audience and debate the implications for the future dissemination of scientific information. We have invited leading representatives of the main groups of stakeholders and observers from the mainstream Internet industries to express their views in 1,000-word articles. We hope to help identify some of the best opportunities offered by the Internet, and explore what the best public and private strategies might be, in economic and other terms, to ensure that science reaps the most benefits.

9 September -- 14 October 1999
Why are there so few women in science?
Moderator: Nancy J. Lane (University of Cambridge, UK)
Contributors: Mary-Lou Pardue, Nancy Hopkins, Mary C. Potter & Sylvia Ceyer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Nicole Dewandre (European Commission), Sybille Krummacher (Research Centre Jülich, Germany), Helga Ebeling (Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany ), Lydia Makkubu (University of Swaziland), Monique Frize (Carleton University/University of Ottawa), Claire Deschenes (Laval University, Canada), Elizabeth Cannon (University of Calgary), Mary Williams (Memorial University, Canada), and Maria Klawe (University of British Columbia), Geoffrey Oldham and Sjamsiah Achmad (UNESCO), Campbell Warden (EARMA), Kristina Rolin (University of Helsinki), Samuel Gorovitz (Syracuse University, New York), Marilyn Mac Donald (Simon Fraser University, Canada), Lisa O'Connor (Kalgoorlie, Australia), Elizabeth Poskitt (Geneva, Switzerland).

25^th February - 8^th April 1999
Is the reliable prediction of individual earthquakes a realistic scientific goal?
Moderator: Ian Main
Contributors: Robert J. Geller (University of Tokyo), Max Wyss (University of Alaska, Fairbanks), Pascal Bernard (Institute de Physique du Globe de Paris), Andrew Michael (United States Geological Survey), Chris Scholz (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University), David D. Jackson (Southern California Earthquake Center, UCLA), Leon Knopoff (UCLA).

19^th November – 24^th December 1998
Is the fossil record adequate?
Moderator: A Smith
Contributors: Paul Pearson (University of Bristol), Charles Marshall (UCLA), Mark Siddall (University of Michigan), Blair Hedges (Pennsylvania State University), Peter Wagner (Field Museum, Chicago), Jan Pawlowski (University of Geneva), Chris Paul (University of Liverpool), Peter Forey (Natural History Museum, London), Daniel C. Fisher (University of Michigan).

1^st – 29^th October 1998
Benefits and Risks of Genetic Modification in Agriculture
Moderator: M Wilkinson
Contributors: Rosie Hails (Institute of Virology, Oxford), Julie Hill (Green Alliance), Paul Arriola (Elmhurst College), Mike Gasson (Institute of Food Research, Norwich), Alan Gray (Furzebrook Research Institute, Wareham).