company springer nature status active founded 1869 1869 nature journal founder alexander macmillan daniel macmillan country of origin united kingdom headquarters location 4 crinan street london distribution worldwide publication types academic journals magazines online databases nonfiction topics science medicine official website www.nature.com npg index npg.html nature publishing group is a division of the international scientific publishing company springer nature that publishes academic journals magazines online databases and services in science and medicine . nature publishing group s flagship publication is nature a weekly multidisciplinary journal first published in 1869 . it also publishes nature research journals nature reviews journals since 2000 and society owned academic journals . springer nature also publishes scientific american in 16 languages a magazine intended for the general public . in 2013 nature publishing group bought a controlling stake 1 in frontiers . 2 before springer nature was formed in 2015 the nature publishing group was a part of macmillan science and education a fully owned subsidiary of holtzbrinck publishing group . 3 contents 1 company overview 2 products 2.1 journals 2.1.1 access and pricing 2.2 textbooks 2.3 other services 3 see also 4 references 5 external links company overview edit the nature publishing group employs over 800 people in its offices in london new york city san francisco seoul washington d.c. boston tokyo paris munich hong kong melbourne gurgaon mexico city and basingstoke . 4 products edit journals edit see also category nature research academic journals as of september 2016 npg publishes 148 academic journals . 5 the former nature clinical practice series was rebranded and folded into the nature reviews series in april 2009 . 6 they also publish the njp nature journal partner series . access and pricing edit in most cases the costs of springer nature s publications are recovered via subscription to individuals and institutions . over 40 journals allow their authors to publish open access articles with the author or their institution or research funder paying a publication charge to the journal . the publisher also has several open access journals . authors are also allowed to post accepted unedited papers on their websites or the funding body s archives no earlier than 6 months after publication . 7 in june 2010 a letter outlining the university of california libraries pricing challenges with npg was distributed to university faculty by campus librarians with the support of the systemwide university committee on library and scholarly communication . the letter also described a potential boycott if the dispute was not resolved . 8 in august 2010 a joint statement was released stating our two organizations have agreed to work together in the coming months to address our mutual short and long term challenges including an exploration of potential new approaches and evolving publishing models . 9 on 2 december 2014 npg announced that it would make content from all of nature s journals available online for free . however articles are presented using the digital rights management system readcube which is funded by the macmillan subsidiary digital science which only provides read only access and does not allow readers to download copy print or otherwise distribute the content . additionally links to these articles can only be generated by nature subscribers and a group of selected media outlets but the links can be publicly distributed through online articles and social networks afterwards . providers can also provide annotations on the linked articles . 10 the move was designed to counter the trend of dark sharing while leveraging readcube to provide analytics . while considering it a compromise between fully restricted access critics do not consider this to be a true open access scheme due to its restrictions on use and distribution . 11 textbooks edit in 2011 nature launched its first line of electronic textbooks for the college market starting with principles of biology which was adopted by california state university . 12 13 the textbook line has been described by vikram savkar senior vice president and publishing director at nature publishing group as potentially breaking down the traditional textbook publishing model . 14 other services edit other active nature publishing group services include naturejobs containing scientific career information tools and jobs . a companion site to encode the encyclopedia of dna elements which is a project funded by the national human genome research institute to identify all regions of transcription transcription factor association chromatin structure and histone modification in the human genome sequence . scitable a collaborative learning space for science students . past experiments at offering online services include the pre print server nature precedings which was discontinued in april 2012 . connotea a free online reference management service for scientists which was created in december 2004 and discontinued in march 2013 . nature network a free social networking website for scientists which was put into read only mode in december 2013 . see also edit frontiers publisher references edit scientific publishing changing nature . the economist . 2013 02 27 . baynes grace . nature publishing group and frontiers form alliance to further open science . nature publishing group . van noorden richard . nature owner merges with publishing giant . nature news & comment . retrieved 2016 01 14 . work npg nature publishing group . home nature a z index . www.nature.com . retrieved 12 september 2016 . nature reviews goes clinical press release . nature publishing group . 28 january 2009 . retrieved 2010 06 09 . license nature publishing group . howard jennifer 2010 06 08 . u. of california tries just saying no to rising journal costs . the chronicle of higher education . retrieved 2010 06 09 . statement from the university of california and nature publishing group 25 august 2010 retrieved on 15 march 2011 nature journal subscribers can now share article links globally . wired.co.uk . retrieved 3 december 2014 . science journal nature to make archives available online . the guardian . 2 december 2014 . retrieved 3 december 2014 . announcing principles of biology an interactive textbook by nature education . nature.com . retrieved 2012 11 19 . npg project . als.csuprojects.org . 2011 05 24 . retrieved 2012 11 19 . e textbooks are destroying the old publishing business model . betanews.com . retrieved 2012 11 19 . external links edit official website nature network scitable nature encode nature precedings interview with timo hannay director of web publishing for nature publishing group v t e holtzbrinck publishing group holtzbrinck publishers s. fischer rowohlt kiepenheuer & witsch 85 % droemer knaur 50 % newspapers and magazines die zeit 50 % zeit wissen main post lausitzer rundschau 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