Nature Publishing Group (NPG)

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Name of Service
Nature Publishing Group Biomedical Titles

License Agreed
Country-wide for all not-for-profit libraries, research and learning institutions

Service Type
Online journals

Content
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) publishes journals and online databases across the life, physical and applied sciences and, most recently, clinical medicine. Content encompasses daily news from award-winning journalists, expert opinion and practical methodology, and more high impact research and reviews than any science publisher. Over 30 journals are published in association with prestigious academic societies.

Titles of Journals
See the full list of titles offered here [Excel 33kb] or here [pdf 21kb]

Subject Strengths
Chemistry:

Chemistry
Drug discovery
Biotechnology
Materials
Methods & Protocols

Clinical Practice & Research:

Cancer
Cardiovascular medicine
Dentistry
Endocrinology
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Methods & Protocols
Pathology & Pathobiology
Urology

Earth & Environment:

Earth sciences
Evolution & Ecology

Life sciences:

Biotechnology
Cancer
Development
Drug discovery
Evolution & Ecology
Genetics
Immunology
Medical research
Methods & Protocols
Microbiology
Molecular cell biology
Neuroscience
Pharmacology
Systems biology

Physical sciences:

Physics
Materials

Service Strengths
Institutions that sign up for access will benefit from direct access on the NPG website, access to usage statistics, the ability to register for alerts and notifications, access to NPG customer services and representatives and an NPG contract.

Impact factors
See a list of impact factors here [Excel 30kb]

Archival information

Access will be the current year plus access to the content published in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007.
For clarity: Institutions will not have post cancellation rights or access to the full NPG archives.

URL to platform/collection access
www.nature.com

Registration
Each institution is required to register to use Nature Publishing Group journals. If you have not used this resource before you may need to check if your institution is registered and identify the contact person who has your access details. To do this, please go to the INASP Registration Database and select your country and institution.

Access Information
Access by IP address recognition only.

URL to general publisher site
www.nature.com

Usage guides
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More information for librarians
See information on the publisher’s pages here and also on the INASP/NPG information page here.