Nature Portfolio(formerly known asNature Publishing GroupandNature Research)[1]is a division of the internationalscientific publishingcompanySpringer Naturethat publishesacademic journals,magazines,online databases, and services in science and medicine.
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| Parent company | Springer Nature |
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| Status | Active |
| Founded | 1869(Nature Journal) |
| Founder | |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | London,N1 |
| Distribution | Worldwide |
| Publication types | Academic journals,magazines,online databases |
| Nonfiction topics | Science, medicine |
| Owner(s) | Springer Nature |
| No.of employees | >800 |
| Official website | nature.com |
Nature Research's flagship publication isNature,a weeklymultidisciplinaryjournal first published in 1869. It also publishes theNature-titled research journals,Nature Reviewsjournals (since 2000),[2]society-owned academic journals, and a range ofopen accessjournals, includingScientific ReportsandNature Communications.Springer Nature also publishesScientific Americanin 16 languages, a magazine intended for the general public.
In 2013, prior to the merger withSpringerand the creation of Springer Nature, Nature Publishing Group's owner,Holtzbrinck Publishing Group,bought a controlling stake[3][4]inFrontiers.[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
editNature Research employs more than 800 people in its offices inLondon,New York City,San Francisco,Seoul,Washington, D.C.,Boston,Tokyo,Paris,Berlin,Munich,Madrid,Hong Kong,Shanghai,Delhi,Melbourne,Mexico City,Buenos Aires,São PauloandBasingstoke.[7]
Products
editJournals
editAs of February 2020, Nature Research publishes 156 academic journals.[8]The formerNature Clinical Practiceseries was rebranded and folded into theNature Reviewsseries in April 2009.[9]They also publish thenpj(Nature Partner Journals) series.
Access and pricing
editIn most cases, the costs of Springer Nature's publications are recovered via subscription to individuals and institutions. Over 40 journals allow their authors to publishopen accessarticles, with the author (or their institution or research funder) paying apublication chargeto the journal. The publisher also has severalopen 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 theUniversity of Californialibraries' 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.[11]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."[12]
On 2 December 2014, NPG announced that it would make content from all ofNature's journals available online for free. However, articles are presented using thedigital rights managementsystemReadCube(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 byNaturesubscribers and a group of selected media outlets—but the links can be publicly distributed through online articles andsocial networksafterwards. 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 provideanalytics.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.[14]
Textbooks
editIn 2011, Nature launched its first line of electronic textbooks for the college market, starting withPrinciples of Biology,which was adopted byCalifornia State University.[15][16]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.[17]
Other services
editOther active Nature Portfolio services include:
- Nature Careers, containing careers news, advice, tools and jobs for scientists.
- A companion site toENCODE,the Encyclopedia ofDNAElements, which is a project funded by theNational Human Genome Research Instituteto identify all regions of transcription, transcription factor association,chromatinstructure andhistonemodification in thehuman genomesequence.
- 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 serverNature Precedings(which was discontinued in April 2012).
- Connotea(a free onlinereference managementservice 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
editReferences
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- ^"Home: Nature Reviews".www.nature.com.Retrieved18 November2018.
- ^Frontiers."About Frontiers | Academic Journals and Research Community".Retrieved18 November2018.
- ^J.P. (27 February 2013)."Scientific Publishing: Changing Nature".The Economist.
- ^Baynes, Grace (27 February 2013)."Nature Publishing Group and Frontiers form alliance to further open science".Nature Publishing Group. Archived fromthe originalon 12 May 2017.
- ^Van Noorden, Richard (15 January 2015)."Natureowner merges with publishing giant ".Nature.doi:10.1038/nature.2015.16731.S2CID211730189.Retrieved14 January2016.
- ^Work @ NPG,Nature Research.
- ^"Home: Nature a - z index".www.nature.com.Retrieved2 February2020.
- ^"Nature Reviews goes clinical"(Press release). "Nature Publishing Group. 28 January 2009. Archived fromthe originalon 2 June 2017.Retrieved9 June2010.
- ^License,Nature Research.
- ^Howard, Jennifer (8 June 2010)."U. of California Tries Just Saying No to Rising Journal Costs".The Chronicle of Higher Education.Retrieved9 June2010.
- ^Statement from the University of California and Nature Publishing Group,25 August 2010 retrieved on 15 March 2011
- ^Clark, Liat (2 December 2014)."Nature journal subscribers can now share article links globally".Wired.co.uk.Archived fromthe originalon 2 December 2014.Retrieved3 December2014.
- ^Yuhas, Alan (2 December 2014)."Science journal Nature to make archives available online".The Guardian.Retrieved3 December2014.
- ^"Announcing Principles of Biology, an Interactive Textbook by Nature Education".Nature.com. Archived fromthe originalon 13 May 2017.Retrieved19 November2012.
- ^"NPG project".Als.csuprojects.org. 24 May 2011. Archived fromthe originalon 4 March 2016.Retrieved19 November2012.
- ^Conneally, Tim (15 July 2011)."E-textbooks are destroying the old publishing business model".Betanews.com.Retrieved19 November2012.