I am on holiday, so instead of the usual weekly round-up, I am highlighting a particular Nature Network forum of interest. The regular Nature Network round-up will return on Friday 15 August.
At the Nature Precedings forum, Hilary Spencer features a YouTube video interview with Timo Hannay. There is a link to the video at the Nature Network forum post. Hilary writes: "In a 10 minute interview, Timo Hannay, Publishing Director of Nature.com, discusses some of Nature Publishing Group’s online projects including Nature Precedings and Nature Network. He discusses content licensing on Nature Precedings and Molecular Systems Biology, which both use Creative Commons licenses…..Timo also speaks briefly about business models used by online ventures, including the “freenium” model and advertiser-supported models." Timo has posted further thoughts (since the video interview was filmed but before it was aired) about open-access publishing models at Nascent blog, a post which features a stimulating online discussion.