Nature Preceedings
Posted by mfenner, Sun Jun 24 22:51:00 UTC 2007
The Nature Publishing Group started Nature Preceedings, a new preprint and document-sharing service last week. The new service was announced by Timo Hannay in Nature’s Nascent blog, Tim O’Reilly was one of the first to blog this.
Nature Preceedings is a searchable and citable document repository of preprints and presentations. It is very similar to the ArXiv.org service that covers Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science and Quantitative Biology. The main features of Nature Preceedings are:
- The service is free for readers and authors
- All content is released under the Creative Commons Attribution License and will be mirrored on other sites
- There is no peer-review, but readers can comment and vote on the released documents
- Papers submitted to a Nature journal can be prepublished on the service
This is a bold move and we wish them good luck. Time will tell whether enough authors are willing to submit their conference presentations, preliminary findings or supplementary material.
