These are the slides of the talk that I gave last week at the Hannover Bio-IT world conference. Many repurposed slides, but a few new ones too.

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

2. • 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

3. 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

4. • "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"

7. Making Deeper Connections
foto: flickr Naveen Roy

8. Social Layer
Audience
Content
Authors

11. Grey Literature preceedings.nature.com
photo: flickr Opacity

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

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

24. Nature Network

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

37. Open CC
Search content
Database Connotea
Connections API

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

40. http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/
http://www.nature.com/scifoo/index.html
http://www.slideshare.net/IanMulvany
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41. Thank you!

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