Peer-to-peer

Nature Publishing Group has this week launched a website dedicated to authors and peer-reviwers. Authors & Referees @ npg (http://www.nature.com/authors) provides links to and information about the Nature journals' publication policies for primary research papers; author and referee services; and author benefits. We also provide feedback links so potential authors, peer-reviewers, scientists and other readers can ask questions about these topics. This blog (Peer to Peer) and our authors' blog (Nautilus) are integrated into the site.

Find out more about the site here or via the links in the vertical column to the left of this page. We hope to be hearing from you about what you'd like us to include in this site, and receiving your questions and comments about our policies, services and benefits for authors and reviwers.
(This post has also been published on the Nautilus blog.)

Posted by Maxine Clarke on January 12, 2007
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Peer-to-Peer and Nautilus have received their first welcome to the scientific blogosphere from outside the Nature Publishing Group. At Blog Around the Clock, Coturnix, er, welcomes us here. Lukman has added a comment: "Thanks for this great info. Your blog is very informative for science development for ordinary people like us."

In an earlier post, Coturnix writes about the upcoming 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging conference, part of the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. From the society's website: "Popular political and social commentary blogs are making the news, but is there more out there than chatty gossip and collections of links? How about some science? Can this trendy technology be useful for scientists? Come to the Media Workshop and find out ....about how blogging works, setting one up, finding things to write about, and using the medium for your classes, for research, or for educating the public."

Correction: The session on science blogging at SCIB is on January 4th in Phoenix, AZ, while the 1.5-day Science Blogging Conference is on January 20th in Chapel Hill, NC. (Thanks to Coturnix for pointing this out.)

Posted by Maxine Clarke on December 13, 2006
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Welcome to Nature Publishing Group's new-look peer-review blog. In the summer of 2006, the journal Nature hosted an online debate on peer-review. This took the form of 22 commissioned articles on a range of topics. Readers could comment on the articles on a peer-review debate blog.

We have now revamped the blog as a more general discussion forum about peer review, calling it Peer to Peer. We welcome scientists and others who have reviewed, are reviewing or would like to review for the Nature journals. This is your blog: we will post articles about the peer-review process, link to others (see Connotea section of the left-hand vertical sidebar), and answer your questions about the Nature journals' peer review policy.

Please send your brief article or question to us at the peer-reviewers' email address, and we'll feature your feedback on Peer to Peer.

The Nature peer-review debate is fully archived on Peer to Peer. Click on the category "peer review debate" on the left to see all the commissioned articles and the comments so far. We encourage you to join in the conversation with us.

Posted by Maxine Clarke on December 07, 2006
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