Growing Beyond Journals, Nature Web Applications

Bio-IT world, HannoverIan MulvanyNature

• 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 them an opportunity of discussing the various scientific questions that arise from time to time"

Norman Lockyer

foto: flickr Naveen Roy

Making Deeper Connections

Authors

Content

Audience

Social Layer

Grey Literature preceedings.nature.comphoto: flickr Opacity

Managing References connotea.orgphoto credit: flickr Xavier de Jauréguiberry

Getting Social network.nature.comphoto credit: flickr mcgeez

Nature Network

Bringing things together

photo: flickr Thomas Hawk

blogs.nature.comstreamosphere.nature.com

OpenSearch

DatabaseConnections

ConnoteaAPI

CCcontent

“Some” things I didn’t talk about

second life

scintilla

XMP

Gateways

Google Waveentity extraction

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