The latest edition of Nurture, the magazine for Nature journal authors, is now out, featuring articles on authors and editors from the Nature journals, our latest new journal Nature Photonics, Nature‘s new News and Views Q/A format, Second Nature (Second Life), highlights from Nature’s history, the new online publications Nature Reports Avian Flu and Nature Network Boston, how to write a bestselling science book, Nature Structural and Molecular Biology’s service for 3D protein structure visualization, and more.

Authors have a degree of curiosity about what goes on at the journal after their paper is submitted. Nurture is intended to give authors an inside look at our procedures, and to tell them about services we offer. What happens after you submit your work? Why do we issue a press release and how is it created? What happens when your paper is featured in News and Views or in the international press? How do we decide what services to introduce? What are the editors like?

We hope that Nurture will help to reveal some of the processes that happen behind the veil of the Nature journals, and will convey something of what it is like having a paper published in one of them. We also hope that Nurture is an entertaining read.

The print edition of Nurture is sent to Nature journal authors who have published a paper in the past year, so if you fall into this category, you should be receiving your copy soon if you haven’t already. It is also available free of charge as a digital edition, which you can obtain by clicking on the underlined part of this sentence.

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