nature.com

nature.com provides access to Nature Portfolio publications and services, including news and comment from Nature, and the leading scientific jobs board Nature Careers. It also provides access to academic and society journals published in collaboration with Springer Nature. 

  • Access all Nature Research content including nature, Nature journals, Nature Review journals, adding more than 35,000 research articles every year.
  • Includes the open access content of Nature Communications, the Nature Partner Journals and Scientific Reports.   
  • Read the latest updates from our editors and science news.

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Public Interfaces

Nature.com supports a number of standards-based metadata channels which provides for a range of linking opportunities. Below we list some common public interfaces into the nature.com platform.


Resource Discovery

HTML

Web pages provide a number of opportunities for disclosing metadata. 

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PDF

The standard for embedding metadata in PDF files is via XMP metadata.

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OAI-PMH

Nature.com supports the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. 

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RSS

Nature.com provides a full inventory of RSS feeds across all of its journals, gateways and NatureNews.

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Linking

DOI

For direct and permanent linking to journal articles, nature.com uses the DOI and the CrossRef system for reference linking.

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OpenURL

Nature.com uses OpenURL as a standard 'link to' syntax for linking to journals, issues and articles using bibliographic metadata.

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Other Information

For a full list of Metadata Resources or to contact our developers visit our developers page.


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