PRESS RELEASE FROM NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
1 November 2005
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Contact: Peter Ashman
Nature Publishing Group
+44 20 7843 4715
Developments at Nature Clinical Practice
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) today expanded the Nature Clinical Practice series with the launch of four additional journals in Endocrinology & Metabolism, Rheumatology, Nephrology and Neurology.
Other progress with the Nature Clinical Practice journals include the introduction of mobile service, acceptance into several indexing databases and an alliance with the European School of Oncology
(ESO).
“Following the successful launch of Nature Clinical Practice in November 2004, the program has been extended to include four new titles - all designed to save busy physicians time by filtering and highlighting the most important research developments and translating into practice for the practicing clinician - and we are proud to have again attracted some of the world's leading authorities as EditorinChief,” said Peter Ashman, Publisher.
The new Nature Clinical Practice journals are published monthly in print and online. The journals and their editors in chief are:
Nature Clinical Practice Endocrinology & Metabolism :
P Reed Larsen - Chief of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension and Professor of
Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Nature Clinical Practice Rheumatology :
Peter Lipsky - Director of the Intramural Research Program at the National Institute of
Arthritis and Muscoskeletal and Skin Diseases
Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology :
Robert Schrier - Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine
Nature Clinical Practice Neurology :
John Griffin - Professor and Director of the Department of Neurology at Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine, Professor of Neuroscience and Pathology, and Neurologist-in-
Chief at Johns Hopkins
Nature Clinical Practice also recently launched mobile service. The service is available for any webenabled mobile phone, smartphone or Blackberry, as well as any Palm OS or Pocket PC-powered
PDA. Clinicians can access the service from (URL), and view the content in a range of formats, from text-only to mobile PDF. More information is available at http://www.nature.com/ncpcardio/about_journal/pda_services.html
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“The Nature Clinical Practice mobile service offers clinicians the opportunity to keep up to date with news and developments in their practice area whenever convenient: during a commute, travel time, or a break in the work day,” continued Peter Ashman.
“With increasing numbers of clinicians using handheld devices like PDAs, smartphones, and the
Blackberry, this is a logical extension beyond the fixed internet designed to help clinicians make the best use of limited time by putting up-todate information in their pockets.”
The Nature Clinical Practice mobile service is powered by Roundpoint, a leading provider of mobile content delivery solutions to the publishing industry. Roundpoint's content delivery technology is used by, amongst others, The Economist , The Financial Times , The Guardian and Hearst Newspapers.
In another development, the first four Nature Clinical Practice journals (Cardiovascular Medicine,
Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Urology and Oncology) have all been accepted for indexing in the following places: CAB Abstracts, CINAHL, Current Contents Clinical Medicine, Current Contents
EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, Index Medicus/MEDLINE and Science Citation Index.
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Finally, the European School of Oncology (ESO) has entered into a strategic partnership to endorse the journal Nature Clinical Practice Oncology . As part of the partnership, all attendees of the ESO
Annual Masterclass will receive a complimentary subscription to the journal. An editorial collaboration has also been agreed between Nature Clinical Practice Oncology and ESO's Cancer World magazine.
Launched in 2004, and with Vincent T DeVita as Editor-in-Chief, Nature Clinical Practice Oncology provides oncologists with authoritative and timely interpretations of key developments in the field, translating the latest findings into clinical practice. Content includes editorial and opinion pieces, highlights from the current literature, commentaries on the application of recent research to practical patient care, comprehensive reviews and in-depth case studies.
About NPG
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is a division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd, dedicated to serving the academic, professional scientific and medical communities. NPG's flagship title, Nature , is the world's most highly-cited weekly multidisciplinary journal and was first published in 1869. Other publications and services include Nature research journals, Nature Reviews , Nature Clinical Practice , a range of prestigious academic journals, including society-owned publications, news content from news@nature.com
and scientific career information from Naturejobs .
NPG is a global company, with headquarters in London and offices in New York, San Francisco,
Washington DC, Boston, Tokyo, Paris, Munich, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Gurgaon and Basingstoke.
For more information, please go to www.nature.com
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Contact details:
Peter Ashman
Nature Publishing Group
The Macmillan Building
4 Crinan Street
London, N1 9XW, UK
T: +44 (0)20 7843 4715
E: p.ashman@nature.com
For further information about the partnership:
Alberto Costa, Director
European School of Oncology, Milan
T: +39 02 8546451
E: director@esoncology.org
Links: www.nature.com/clinicalpractice www.cancerworld.org
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