All Nature papers can be viewed and shared free of charge

Global publisher Macmillan Science and Education(McMillan) announced an initiative that allows you to view and share the full text of academic papers for free. To this initiative scientific journalNatureAs soon as I agreed, Nature paper will be available for free in full text, including past papers.

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Global publisherMacmillan Science and Education(Macmillan) announced on December 2, 2014 a new publishing initiative to prepare a platform on which scientists around the world can browse academic papers for free, with the aim of sharing common human assets of scientific knowledge (Hereinafter referred to as the "McMillan Initiative").

Under the McMillan Initiative, an academic journal that agrees with the initiative can share a paper link to online special software that allows subscribers to browse full texts of all the papers for free. And Science Journal Nature promptly approved the McMillan Initiative,Nature Genetics,Nature Medicine,Nature PhysicsSuchNature Publishing GroupSubscribers of each academic journal will be able to browse all the papers in full text free of charge for all Nature papers offered. The Nature paper which can be browsed for free will be subject to all past papers dating back to 1869.


Full-text free review of academic papers is highly evaluated as software to collect and manage academic papersReadCubeScheduled to be available on-line using the viewer function. However, you can view academic papers on the ReadCube viewer, but you can not print or download them. The desktop version of ReadCube also says that you can also save the PDF at hand. ReadCube seems to be easy to imagine if it thinks like software like "iTunes Paper Management Version".


As a concrete example of use, medical researchers subscribing to Nature Medicine share the link URL of a paper page to researchers in the same field, as well as researchers in the same field, using e-mail or the like, the URL is sent If a person clicks the link page, it becomes possible to view the article in full-text PDF file. By doing this, you can browse full texts of academic papers (Nature Medicine) that you do not subscribe for free, and you can share scientific knowledge across fields.

In addition, the McMillan initiative is innovative, not only individuals subscribing to academic journals but also about 100 mass media and blog media that post articles on science can also share PDF files, to the full text of the article It will be accessible. By doing this, it is expected that scientific knowledge will be shared not only among researchers, but also to citizens interested in science.

Nature, one of the most prestigious scientific journals, has a significant significance to participate in the McMillan initiative, and if other academic journals follow Nature and participate in McMillan initiative, beyond the boundaries of academic journals, wealth of scientific knowledge It is likely to be shared all over the world.