Growing Beyond Journals,
Nature Web Applications
Bio-IT world, Hannover
Ian Mulvany
Nature

• Nature, a brief overview
• The changing role of the publisher
• Grey Literature - Nature Preceedings
• Reference Management - Connotea
• Social Applications - Nature Network
• Collating - Nature Blogs and The Streamosphere

Journal Evolution
•1869 Journal Founded
•1899 Journal Makes a Profit
•1967 Peer Review
•1992 Nature Genetics
•1995 Holzbrink Ownership
•1995 Nature.com
•2004 Connotea
•2007 Nature Network

• "It is intended, first, to place before
the general public the grand results
of scientific work and scientific
discovery"
• "to aid scientific men ... by affording Norman Lockyer
them an opportunity of discussing
the various scientific questions that
arise from time to time"

Making Deeper Connections
foto: flickr Naveen Roy

Social Layer
Audience
Content
Authors

Grey Literature preceedings.nature.com
photo: flickr Opacity

Managing References connotea.org
photo credit: flickr Xavier
de Jauréguiberry

Getting Social network.nature.com
photo credit: flickr mcgeez

Nature Network

Bringing things together blogs.nature.com
streamosphere.nature.com
photo: flickr Thomas Hawk

Open CC
Search content
Database Connotea
Connections API

“Some” things I
didn’t talk about
Gateways scintilla
entity extraction
Google Wave second life
XMP

http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/
http://www.nature.com/scifoo/index.html
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Thank you!

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