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June 11, 2007
'Nature' to Start Web Site for Early Comments on Research Findings
The influential journal Nature is enlarging its publishing empire yet again by starting a Web site, Nature Precedings, for informal discussions of preliminary research findings. The site, which will go live this week, will “make informal communications such as conference papers or presentations more widely available” and will enable them “to be formally cited,” said an editorial in the current issue of Nature. “This, in turn, allows them to solicit community feedback and establish priority over their results or ideas.”
The site will cover biomedicine, chemistry, and earth sciences — keeping away from the territory of the widely used physics preprint server, ArXiv.
Early reactions on academic blogs have ranged from one scientist, who called the announcement “great news,” to a librarian, who was concerned that “Nature will now have rights to everything that grows out of that early-stage material.” —Lila Guterman
Posted on Monday June 11, 2007 | Permalink |
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