Nature Archive--Now Back to 1970
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) announced today that the latest installment of the Nature archive will go live on Tuesday, August 2, 2005. A decade of scientific information has been added to Nature‘s online archive at http://www.nature.com/nature/archive enabling users to search back to January 1970. The addition of all content published between January 1970 and December 1979 includes approximately 37,405 articles from 510 issues.
(PRWEB) July 31, 2005 -- Nature Publishing Group (NPG) announced today that
the latest installment of the Nature archive will go live on Tuesday, August 2,
2005. A decade of scientific information has been added to Nature‘s online
archive at http://www.nature.com/nature/archive enabling users to search
back to January 1970. The addition of all content published between January 1970
and December 1979 includes approximately 37,405 articles from 510
issues.
Notable papers from the decade include Lauterburg’s paper on a
new imaging technique known as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) (Nature, March
16, 1973), and Gibbons and Hawking’s paper stating evidence for black holes in
binary star systems (Nature, August 13, 1971).
Nature is currently
digitizing the archives back to 1950. Content will be released in installments
of 10 years until completion in 2006. When complete, the Nature archive will
contain:
§ 2,399 issues (volumes 283 -
384)
§ Approximately 154,500 articles
The Nature
archives provide online access to a wealth of premier editorial information
previously published only in print format. All editorial content from the print
issues is available including Articles and Letters, Review material, News and
Views, News and comment, Literature and Essays, plus supplements. All images
have been included when available within online copyright.
When
converting print articles into integrated online files, NPG has applied all the
online functionality today’s researchers expect from a web resource. Each
article includes:
§ HTML abstract
§
PDF version of full article
§ Hyperlinked references using
abstracting services of CrossRef, Medline, and ISI including the ISI Web of
Science.
As an integrated part of the NPG online platform, the Nature
archive has excellent searching capability and integration with current content
from across the NPG portfolio.
Access to Nature is available to
institutions with a site license, providing access to all issues from January
1997 to the present issue. Access to the Nature archive: January 1987 - December
1996 and the Nature archive: January 1950 - December 1986 is available with
signed addendums. The Nature archive: January 1950 - December 1986 agreement
includes the following delivery dates:
1960-1969 - Spring 2006
1950-1959 -
Fall/ Autumn 2006
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