Scientific publishing company
Nature Portfolio
(formerly known as
Nature Publishing Group
and
Nature Research
)
[1]
is a division of the international
scientific publishing
company
Springer Nature
that publishes
academic journals
,
magazines
, online databases, and services in science and medicine.
Nature Research's flagship publication is
Nature
, a weekly
multidisciplinary
journal first published in 1869. It also publishes the
Nature-
titled research journals,
Nature Reviews
journals (since 2000),
[2]
society
-owned academic journals, and a range of
open access
journals, including
Scientific Reports
and
Nature Communications
. Springer Nature also publishes
Scientific American
in 16 languages, a magazine intended for the general public.
In 2013, prior to the merger with
Springer
and the creation of Springer Nature, Nature Publishing Group's owner,
Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
, bought a controlling stake
[3]
[4]
in
Frontiers
.
[5]
Before Springer Nature was formed in 2015, Nature Research (as the Nature Publishing Group) was a part of Macmillan Science and Education, a fully owned subsidiary of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.
[6]
Company overview
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Nature Research employs more than 800 people in its offices in
London
,
New York City
,
San Francisco
,
Seoul
,
Washington, D.C.
,
Boston
,
Tokyo
,
Paris
,
Berlin
,
Munich
,
Madrid
,
Hong Kong
,
Shanghai
,
Delhi
,
Melbourne
,
Mexico City
,
Buenos Aires
,
Sao Paulo
and
Basingstoke
.
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Products
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Journals
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As of February 2020, Nature Research publishes 156 academic journals.
[8]
The former
Nature Clinical Practice
series was rebranded and folded into the
Nature Reviews
series in April 2009.
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They also publish the
npj
(
Nature Partner Journals
) series.
Access and pricing
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In most cases, the costs of Springer Nature's publications are recovered via subscription to individuals and institutions. Over 40 journals allow their authors to publish
open access
articles, with the author (or their institution or research funder) paying a
publication charge
to the journal. The publisher also has several
open access journals
. Authors are also allowed to post accepted, unedited papers on their websites or the funding body's archives no earlier than 6 months after publication.
[10]
In June 2010, a letter outlining the
University of California
libraries' pricing challenges with NPG was distributed to university faculty by campus librarians with the support of the systemwide University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication. The letter also described a potential boycott if the dispute was not resolved.
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In August 2010, a joint statement was released stating "Our two organizations have agreed to work together in the coming months to address our mutual short- and long-term challenges, including an exploration of potential new approaches and evolving publishing models."
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On 2 December 2014, NPG announced that it would make content from all of
Nature
'
s journals available online for free. However, articles are presented using the
digital rights management
system
ReadCube
(which is funded by the Macmillan subsidiary Digital Science), which only provides "read-only" access, and does not allow readers to download, copy, print, or otherwise distribute the content. Additionally, links to these articles can only be generated by
Nature
subscribers and a group of selected media outlets?but the links can be publicly distributed through online articles and
social networks
afterwards. Providers can also provide annotations on the linked articles.
[13]
The move was designed to counter the trend of "dark sharing", while leveraging ReadCube to provide
analytics
. While considering it a compromise between fully restricted access, critics do not consider this to be a true open access scheme due to its restrictions on use and distribution.
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Textbooks
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In 2011, Nature launched its first line of electronic textbooks for the college market, starting with
Principles of Biology
, which was adopted by
California State University
.
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The textbook line has been described by Vikram Savkar, senior vice president and publishing director at then Nature Publishing Group, as potentially breaking down the traditional textbook publishing model.
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Other services
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Other active Nature Portfolio services include:
- Nature Careers, containing careers news, advice, tools and jobs for scientists.
- A companion site to
ENCODE
, the Encyclopedia of
DNA
Elements, which is a project funded by the
National Human Genome Research Institute
to identify all regions of transcription, transcription factor association,
chromatin
structure and
histone
modification in the
human genome
sequence.
- Nature Index
, an open database of author affiliations and institutional relationships. The Index tracks contributions to research articles published in high-quality natural-science and health-science journals, chosen based on reputation by an independent group of researchers. The database is compiled by Nature Research Intelligence, part of Springer Nature.
Past experiments at offering online services include:
- Scitable (a collaborative learning space for science students).
- The pre-print server
Nature Precedings
(which was discontinued in April 2012).
- Connotea
(a free online
reference management
service for scientists, which was created in December 2004 and discontinued in March 2013).
- Nature Network (a free social networking website for scientists, which was put into read-only mode in December 2013).
See also
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References
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Zen, Lillienne (3 June 2016).
"Noticed some changes? Introducing the new Nature Research brand : Of Schemes and Memes Blog"
.
Nature
. Retrieved
18 November
2018
.
- ^
"Home : Nature Reviews"
.
www.nature.com
. Retrieved
18 November
2018
.
- ^
Frontiers.
"About Frontiers | Academic Journals and Research Community"
. Retrieved
18 November
2018
.
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J.P. (27 February 2013).
"Scientific Publishing: Changing Nature"
.
The Economist
.
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Baynes, Grace (27 February 2013).
"Nature Publishing Group and Frontiers form alliance to further open science"
. Nature Publishing Group. Archived from
the original
on 12 May 2017.
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Van Noorden, Richard (15 January 2015).
"
Nature
owner merges with publishing giant"
.
Nature
.
doi
:
10.1038/nature.2015.16731
.
S2CID
211730189
. Retrieved
14 January
2016
.
- ^
Work @ NPG
, Nature Research.
- ^
"Home : Nature a - z index"
.
www.nature.com
. Retrieved
2 February
2020
.
- ^
"Nature Reviews goes clinical"
(Press release). "Nature Publishing Group. 28 January 2009. Archived from
the original
on 2 June 2017
. Retrieved
9 June
2010
.
- ^
License
, Nature Research.
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Howard, Jennifer (8 June 2010).
"U. of California Tries Just Saying No to Rising Journal Costs"
.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
. Retrieved
9 June
2010
.
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Statement from the University of California and Nature Publishing Group
, 25 August 2010 retrieved on 15 March 2011
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Clark, Liat (2 December 2014).
"Nature journal subscribers can now share article links globally"
.
Wired.co.uk
. Archived from
the original
on 2 December 2014
. Retrieved
3 December
2014
.
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Yuhas, Alan (2 December 2014).
"Science journal Nature to make archives available online"
.
The Guardian
. Retrieved
3 December
2014
.
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"Announcing Principles of Biology, an Interactive Textbook by Nature Education"
. Nature.com. Archived from
the original
on 13 May 2017
. Retrieved
19 November
2012
.
- ^
"NPG project"
. Als.csuprojects.org. 24 May 2011. Archived from
the original
on 4 March 2016
. Retrieved
19 November
2012
.
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Conneally, Tim (15 July 2011).
"E-textbooks are destroying the old publishing business model"
. Betanews.com
. Retrieved
19 November
2012
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