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By Mark Staniland on 23 Oct 2017
This blog comes from Steven Inchcoombe, Chief Publishing Officer, Springer Nature … Read more
Posted in Open acess, Springer Nature | Tagged open access
By Lillienne Zen on 22 Oct 2015
In partnership with Nature Publishing Group, the Queensland Brain Institute is launching an open access journal dedicated to the science of learning – npj Science of Learning. We want to create a forum through which neuroscientists, psychologists and educators interact to produce a deeper understanding of how we learn. Just as important as this interdisciplinary approach is the open access model we are adopting. Education affects us all, and we want the findings, discussions and debates within the journal to be accessible to everybody, academic or not. Read more
Posted in Featured, Science communication and outreach | Tagged npj, open access, Queensland Brain Institute, Science of Learning
By Lillienne Zen on 19 Oct 2015
As the most common cancer in women worldwide and the second most common cancer overall, breast cancer remains a fact of life. Read more
Posted in Events, Featured, Science communication and outreach | Tagged BCRF, breast cancer, npj, open access
By Alex Jackson on 26 Feb 2015
Many scientists, as evidenced by recent discussions, appreciate the value of an open access journal – the convenience of being able to immediately and freely access the latest articles, for example, and the value in a freer exchange of scientific ideas. But what may be less obvious is why this matters to the community served by the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation (PDF) – the patients whose lives are directly impacted by the advances and disappointments in Parkinson’s disease research. Read more
Posted in Events, Featured, Science communication and outreach | Tagged npj, open access, parkinsons
By nature.com Communities Team on 26 Jan 2015
We’re pleased to start 2015 with an announcement that we’re now using Creative Commons Attribution license CC BY 4.0 as default. This will apply to all of the 19 fully open access journals Nature Publishing Group owns, and will also apply to any future titles we launch. Two society- owned titles have introduced CC BY as default today and we expect to expand this in the coming months. … Read more
Posted in Featured | Tagged NPG, open access, palgrave
By Alex Jackson on 23 Jun 2014
Ahead of ESOF 2014, we talk to three leading figures in science, technology and academia who through frustrations of not having the effective tools necessary to do their work, decided to build their own. Read more
Posted in Events, Featured, Science communication and outreach, Science policy | Tagged Communities Happenings, esof2014, frontiers, open access, science communication, science policy, technology
By Alex Jackson on 09 Jun 2014
It’s been a busy few weeks for the open access team at Nature Publishing Group. In China, we announced the launch of a new Microsystems & Nanoengineering journal with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. A study published in Scientific Reports on the potential for nanoparticles being used for invisible barcodes has caught the attention of the media. And last, but by no means least, we launched the first content for Scientific Data. Read more
Posted in Featured, Science communication and outreach | Tagged Communities Happenings, data, data descriptors, open access, scientific data
By Grace Baynes on 28 Mar 2014
We would like to clarify NPG’s support for open access, and our position of the moral rights of authors, following some concerns raised by Kevin Smith, Duke University’s Scholarly Communications Officer. Read more
Posted in Featured, Science policy, Uncategorized | Tagged Communities Happenings, open access, policy |
