Nature Archives to Open

Nature Publishing Group announced in a recent release that beginning January 2007, archives of the professional journals NPG publishes will be open to the public for issues published prior to January 2003. They explain:

The decision to open the journal archives has been made jointly by NPG and by the societies for whom we publish. Making each journal's older content freely accessible will encourage wider usage. The policy also helps to address the issue of perpetual access to archives of society-owned journals that transfer between publishers.

The NPG is the scientific publishing arm of Macmillan Publishers Ltd. and includes Nature, Nature research journals, Nature Reviews, Nature Clinical Practice journals and NPG academic journals. Another recent venture seems to be ResearchSEA - Asia Research News, but more on that website at a later time.

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