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Scientific American’s Online Archive (1845–1909) from Nature PG

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Sci­en­tific American’s Online Archive to 1845 Goes Live

Novem­ber 3, 2011 03:50

Source: Resource Shelf, Resource­Blog  Nov. 10th:

“From the press release:

Read­ers can now revisit orig­i­nal reports of Alexan­der Gra­ham Bell’s inven­tion of the tele­phone and Thomas Edison’s inven­tion of the light bulb. Sci­en­tific Amer­i­can’s com­plete archive, back to vol­ume 1, issue 1, is now avail­able on nature.com. To cel­e­brate the com­ple­tion of the Sci­en­tific Amer­i­can archive on nature.com, the 1845–1909 archive col­lec­tion will be free to all to access from 1–30 Novem­ber 2011. Pub­lished since 1845,Sci­en­tific Amer­i­can is the longest con­tin­u­ally pub­lished mag­a­zine in the U.S.”

Scitable, a free online science library from Nature Publishing Group

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“…explore Nature Education’s Scitable, a free online sci­ence library pub­lished by edi­tors at Nature Pub­lish­ing Group.  Scitable is used every day by thou­sands of fac­ulty, grad­u­ate stu­dents, researchers, and sci­ence writ­ers. Scitable is a scientist-authored, cutting-edge learn­ing resource you can rec­om­mend with confidence.” 

New addi­tions:

  • Essen­tials of Genet­ics, a free course on the basic con­cepts of genet­ics, fea­tur­ing high qual­ity ani­ma­tions, clear expla­na­tions, and links to biogra­phies and research papers.
  • 30+ new Read­ings on impor­tant top­ics in genet­ics, each writ­ten and reviewed by lead­ing researchers and filled with links to research milestones.
  • Scitable Class­rooms, a free online research space that teach­ing fac­ulty can cre­ate in less than 5 min­utes. Scitable Class­rooms include news feeds, read­ing lists, and threaded dis­cus­sions.  Watch our “how to” video that shows fac­ulty how to set up a classroom

 From today’s email:  Nature Pub­lish­ing Group [Nature.Publishing.Group@information.nature.com]

Nature Chemistry — new online journal from Nature Publishing Group

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Nature Chem­istry — the sec­ond issue is now online, and cov­ers a wide range of top­ics, includ­ing catal­y­sis, meso­porous mate­ri­als, syn­thetic method­ol­ogy, anion trans­port, and DNA con­duc­tiv­ity. In addi­tion, there is a com­men­tary about pre-university chem­i­cal edu­ca­tion, a review arti­cle on Mobius aro­matic­ity and a the­sis arti­cle that looks at alter­na­tive forms of the peri­odic table.

[Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity Library has sub­scribed, but for a time, it’s free to all.]

Source: an email announce­ment from Nature Pub­lish­ing Group

Open Access & Article Depostion from Nature Pub. Group

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 Nature Pub­lish­ing Group and ASGT announce open access and arti­cle depo­si­tion ser­vices for authors — 26 Jan 2009

Sci­en­tific pub­lisher Nature Pub­lish­ing Group (NPG), UK, and the Amer­i­can Soci­ety of Gene Ther­apy (ASGT) have announced the launch of two new ser­vices to help authors com­ply with fun­der and insti­tu­tional man­dates for pub­lic access. Under the ini­tia­tive, Mol­e­c­u­lar Ther­apy, the offi­cial jour­nal of the ASGT, will now offer authors the option of imme­di­ate open access on pub­li­ca­tion, includ­ing depo­si­tion in PubMed Cen­tral, sub­ject to the pay­ment of a pub­li­ca­tion fee. In addi­tion, as a fur­ther author ben­e­fit to aid com­pli­ance with sev­eral fund­ing body man­dates, NPG will deposit all Mol­e­c­u­lar Ther­apy arti­cles to PubMed Cen­tral upon final pub­li­ca­tion, to be made pub­lic after 12 months.

Upon sub­mis­sion of orig­i­nal research arti­cles, authors have the option of pub­lish­ing their arti­cles as open access for a pub­li­ca­tion fee of £2,000 / $3,000 / €2,400. Open access arti­cles will be freely avail­able upon pub­li­ca­tion. By pay­ing this one-time fee, authors are also enti­tled to self-archive the final pub­lished PDF of their arti­cles on a web­site, insti­tu­tional repos­i­tory, or other free pub­lic server upon pub­li­ca­tion. Open access arti­cles will be des­ig­nated by the MTOpen logo in both the print and online edi­tions of the jour­nal and will be freely acces­si­ble via PubMed Cen­tral imme­di­ately after publication.

Open access arti­cles will be pub­lished under a Cre­ative Com­mons license. Authors may choose between the Attribution-Noncommercial-No Deriv­a­tive Works 3.0 Unported and the Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported Licence. The Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike Licence per­mits deriv­a­tive works, ensur­ing that authors can com­ply with fun­ders such as the Well­come Trust. Under both licenses, the final pub­lished ver­sion of MTOpen arti­cles can be down­loaded and shared as long as the author and orig­i­nal pub­li­ca­tion are cited.

Under the terms of NPG’s License to Pub­lish, self-archiving is encour­aged on all orig­i­nal research arti­cles pub­lished in Mol­e­c­u­lar Ther­apy. In all cases, the author’s ver­sion of the accepted man­u­script can be made pub­licly acces­si­ble six months after pub­li­ca­tion. This applies regard­less of whether the authors choose the MTOpen option.

Mol­e­c­u­lar Ther­apy joins The EMBO Jour­nal, EMBO reports and British Jour­nal of Can­cer, which already offer an open access option to authors. NPG also announced the intro­duc­tion of an open access option on ten fur­ther journals.

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Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, 26 Jan., 2009

Nature Publishing Group — free archive service for authors

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“  Nature Pub­lish­ing Group announces free ser­vice to archive on behalf of authors — 09 Jul 2008

Sci­en­tific pub­lisher Nature Pub­lish­ing Group (NPG), UK, is ini­ti­at­ing a free ser­vice to help authors ful­fil fun­der and insti­tu­tional man­dates. The ser­vice, slated for launch later this year, will ini­tially be open to authors pub­lish­ing orig­i­nal research arti­cles in Nature, the Nature research titles and the clin­i­cal research sec­tion of Nature Clin­i­cal Prac­tice Car­dio­vas­cu­lar Med­i­cine. NPG will then extend the ser­vice to soci­ety and aca­d­e­mic jour­nals in its port­fo­lio that wish to participate.

The pub­lisher has encour­aged self-archiving, includ­ing in PubMed Cen­tral, since 2005. Later this year, NPG will begin deposit­ing authors’ accepted man­u­scripts with PubMed Cen­tral (PMC) and UK PubMed Cen­tral (UKPMC), meet­ing the require­ments for authors funded by the Howard Hughes Med­ical Insti­tute (HHMI), the National Insti­tutes of Health (NIH), The Well­come Trust, the Med­ical Research Coun­cil and a num­ber of other major fun­ders in the US, the UK and Canada who man­date depo­si­tion in either PMC or UKPMC. NPG hopes to extend the ser­vice to other archives and repos­i­to­ries in future.

For eli­gi­ble authors who opt-in dur­ing the sub­mis­sion process, NPG will deposit the accepted ver­sion of the author’s man­u­script on accep­tance, set­ting a pub­lic release date of 6-months post-publication. There will be no charge to authors or fun­ders for the service.

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Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newsletter

Nature.com wins ‘Oscars of the Internet’

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Nature Pub­lish­ing Group has won a “Webby” for the “Best Sci­ence Web­site” for 2008.

Besides search­ing access to all of their jour­nals, their web­site fea­tures the following: 

“Through Nature.com, users can access news and fea­tures from Nature News and visit Nature­jobs, NPG’s careers infor­ma­tion and sci­ence recruit­ment web­site. NPG launched Con­notea, the doc­u­ment tag­ging and social book­mark­ing web site in 2003. Nature Net­work, NPG’s social net­work­ing ser­vice con­nects sci­en­tists at a global and local level. The suc­cess of the weekly Nature Pod­cast has led to the con­struc­tion of NPG’s own in-house pod­cast stu­dio. The site also hosts a num­ber of NPG blogs, the preprint ser­vice Nature Pre­ced­ings, and country-focussed por­tals such as Nature China and Nature India.”

For more details about Nature.com and the Web­bies, here is the item in Knowl­edge­s­peak Newsletter.