Interested in the latest research in the areas of physical, chemical, and biological sciences? The Library recently initiated a subscription to the multidisciplinary Nature Communications, an online-only journal dedicated to publishing high-quality research in these areas.
Nature Communications is published by Nature Publishing Group, the same publisher as Nature, and is intended to provide a venue for “the many comprehensive, rigorous and often elegant studies” (also described as “special interest papers”) that do not necessarily have the broad-interest appeal of the articles normally published in Nature.
Nature Communications is a peer-reviewed journal and its focus is solely on primary research, not on news or opinion pieces.
As a nice tie-in with Open Access Week, Nature Communications also offers open access options for its authors. This means that authors have the option to pay an article processing charge to publish their papers in Nature Communications under one of two Creative Commons licenses to make their papers widely available online.
Nature Communications is accessible via Primo or the Library’s e-journals titles search.
For more information, contact:
Liaison Librarian for Chemistry and Earth & Environmental Science
Ext. 38785
University of Waterloo Library
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
519 888 4883
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