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Nature Publishing Group
File:Npg logo.png
Parent company Springer Nature
Status Active
Founded 1869 (1869) (Nature Journal)
Founder Alexander Macmillan, Daniel Macmillan
Country of origin United Kingdom
Headquarters location 4 Crinan Street, London
Distribution Worldwide
Publication types Academic journals, magazines, online databases
Nonfiction topics Science, medicine
Official website www.nature.com/npg_/index_npg.html

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is a division of the international scientific publishing company Springer Nature that publishes academic journals, magazines, online databases, and services in science and medicine. NPG's flagship publication is Nature, a weekly multidisciplinary journal first published in 1869. It also publishes Nature research journals, Nature Reviews journals (since 2000), and society-owned academic journals. NPG also publishes Scientific American in 16 languages, a magazine intended for the general public. In 2013, Nature Publishing Group bought a controlling stake[1] in Frontiers.[2]

Before Springer Nature was formed in 2015, NPG was part of Macmillan Science and Education, a fully owned subsidiary of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.[3]

Company overview

NPG employs over 800 people in its offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Seoul, Washington, D.C., Boston, Tokyo, Paris, Munich, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Gurgaon, Mexico City, and Basingstoke.[4]

Products

Journals

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The former Nature Clinical Practice series was rebranded and folded into the Nature Reviews series in April 2009.[5]

Access and pricing

In most cases, the costs of NPG'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.[6]

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.[7] 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."[8]

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.[9] 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.[10]

Textbooks

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.[11][12] The textbook line has been described by Vikram Savkar, Senior Vice President and Publishing Director at Nature Publishing, as potentially breaking down the traditional textbook publishing model.[13]

Other services

Other active NPG services include:

  • Naturejobs, containing scientific career information, tools and jobs.
  • 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.
  • Scitable (a collaborative learning space for science students).

Past experiments at offering online services include:

  • 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

References

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  6. ↑ License, Nature Publishing Group.
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  8. ↑ Statement from the University of California and Nature Publishing Group, 25 August 2010 retrieved on 15 March 2011
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External links

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