Nature Precedings has recently had a makeover, incuding a Flash-based viewer for presentations (see it in action here); the addition of pages allowing one to view only manuscripts, posters or presentations; and a list of recently updated documents (documents with new revisions posted on Precedings or with newly-added links to later published versions) on the homepage. The homepage itself features two new collections of documents: the Allen Brain Atlas Reports and the Second Nature lecture series.

Hilary Spencer provides some more details on the Flash-based viewer for browsing presentation slides. The viewer can be embedded in the author’s homepage, blogs or other webpages, which we hope will help facilitate viewing, sharing and discussion. It has a full-screen mode, which can be activated using the button in the top right. The same button will also exit full screen mode, or one can press the “ESC” key. The two buttons below the full screen button control the zoom level (for when you can’t read a piece of text or want a better view of an image). Clicking and dragging (or “grabbing”) will pan the image.Embedding the slideshow in your own webpage or blog is easy. Just copy the HTML code for the embed (found to the right of the viewer) into your page. Let us know what you think!