A decade of scientific information has been added to Nature's online archive, enabling users to search back to January 1970
The latest installment of the Nature archive will go live on Tuesday, 2 August 2005.
The addition of all content published between January 1970 and December 1979 includes approximately 37,405 articles from 510 issues.
Notable papers from the decade include Lauterburg's paper on a new imaging technique known as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (Nature, 16 March 1973), and Gibbons and Hawking's paper stating evidence for black holes in binary star systems (Nature, 13 August 1971).
Nature is currently digitising the archives back to 1950.
Content will be released in installments of ten years until completion in 2006.
When complete, the Nature archive will contain 2399 issues (volumes 283-384) and approximately 154,500 articles.
The Nature archives provide online access to a wealth of premier editorial information previously published only in print format.
All editorial content from the print issues is available including articles and letters, review material, news and views, news and comment, literature and essays, plus supplements.
All images have been included when available within online copyright.
When converting print articles into integrated online files, NPG says it has applied all the online functionality today's researchers expect from a web resource.
Each article includes HTML abstract, PDF version of full article, hyperlinked references using abstracting services of CrossRef, Medline, and ISI including the ISI Web of Science.
As an integrated part of the NPG online platform, the Nature archive has excellent searching capability and integration with current content from across the NPG portfolio.
Access to Nature is available to institutions with a site licence, providing access to all issues from January 1997 to the present issue.
Access to the Nature archive January 1987 - December 1996 and the Nature archive: January 1950 - December 1986 is available with signed addendums.
The Nature archive January 1950 - December 1986 agreement includes the following delivery dates: 1960-1969 - spring 2006 1950-1959 - fall/autumn 2006.
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