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Nature Publishing Group (NPG)
Announces the Launch of its Newest Collection
of RSS Newsfeeds
August 6, 2004 - London, England
- Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is pleased
to announce the launch of its newest collection
of RSS newsfeeds that delivers tables of content
for its journals and other timely information
to scientists' desktops. All Nature-branded journals
in the life sciences now have associated RSS newsfeeds
with rich metadata, while other Nature-branded
and NPG titles are slated soon to follow. Those
titles currently providing RSS newsfeeds
are:
Nature
Nature Research Journals
Nature Reviews Journals
NPG Journals
More RSS newsfeeds available from NPG include
those for Nature Jobs and for Nature's recently
released news service News@Nature.com and other
news services:
Nature Jobs
News@Nature and Other NPG News Services
See http://www.nature.com/rss
for a complete listing of newsfeeds for current
issues, as well as a brief introduction to the
advantages of using RSS. Additionally the listing
of newsfeeds is accessible as an OPML file to
facilitate the ready import of NPG newsfeeds into
RSS newsreaders. A master RSS newsfeed of all
NPG newsfeeds is also available for alerting subscribers
to new NPG newsfeeds.
These newsfeeds are all based on the RSS 1.0
format which builds on the W3C Resource Description
Framework and allows rich metadata to be included
at both the channel and item level. Metadata terms
are taken from the IDEAlliance-sponsored PRISM
(Publisher Requirements for Industry Standard
Metadata, see http://www.prismstandard.org/
) basic term set, as well as the simpler and more
familiar Dublin Core term set, which itself is
incorporated under the PRISM standard. Because
of its descriptive power NPG hopes to establish
the use of PRISM metadata as a best practice for
RSS syndication within the scholarly publishing
community. To this end NPG have defined and published
an RSS 1.0 module 'mod_prism' (see http://nurture.nature.com/rss/modules/mod_prism.html)
which allows each of the terms in the basic PRISM
vocabulary to be included within an RSS newsfeed.
We have also developed a jobs metadata term set
(including such terms as 'offeredBy', 'city',
'country', 'postedOn, 'expiresOn', etc) and make
use of these terms in the jobs newsfeeds. We would
like to work with other partners to define a new
RSS module aimed at providing a fuller description
of jobs information. Linking to the article full
text is effected using industry-standard mechanisms
for persistent linking: DOI and CrossRef.
About NPG
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is the scientific
publishing arm of Macmillan Publishers Ltd, combining
the excellence of Nature, Nature Research Journals,
Nature Reviews Journals, NPG Academic Journals
and NPG Reference publications, to provide the
world's premier information resource for the basic
biological and physical sciences. NPG is a global
company, with headquarters in London and offices
in Paris, Munich, New Delhi, Tokyo, Melbourne,
San Diego, San Francisco, Washington, New York
and Boston. See http://npg.nature.com/
for further information.
About IDEAlliance
International Digital Enterprise Alliance (IDEAlliance)
has been a leader in information technology since
1966 (and was formerly nkown as the Graphic Communications
Association). The goal of IDEAlliance is to enable
publishers and other information-driven enterprises
to strategize, innovate, standardize and implement
information technology solutions in an open and
cooperative cross-industry environment. See http://www.idealliance.org/
for further information.
Contact
Tony Hammond
New Technology, Nature Publishing Group
4 Crinan Street, London N1 9XW, UK
+44-20-7843-4659
t.hammond@nature.com
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