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UW-Madison Libraries: Nature License Information

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Information about institutional site license for Nature publications online

For about a year, UW-Madison was one of the few institutions nationwide that served as a BETA TEST SITE for the full-text version of Nature Online (http://www.nature.com) and the Nature monthlies. All parts of the journals were available to UW-Madison users upon publication.

Effective March 1, 2001 the beta test ended and our campus no longer has full-text access to the online Nature publications. The University wishes to pursue an institutional subscription but we cannot agree to the license offered by the publisher.

We cannot agree to the current license because much of the journal content will not be available to users until three months after the publication date. See below for details. Furthermore, it would cost the UW-Madison over $20,000 per year for this delayed-access version of the publications. By contrast, personal subscribers pay $159/year and have immediate access to full content at the time of publication.

Libraries across the country share our objections to the license and have expressed those concerns to the publisher. Some of the major research universities/institutions which have decided not to accept the license and/or pricing model currently being offered are: Princeton University, California Digital Library (representing all of the UC campuses), Cornell University, University of Rochester, University of Chicago, University of Illinois-Chicago, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, Michigan State University, Harvard University, and Iowa State University. A more comprehensive list of libraries which have so far declined signing a site license is available. By not agreeing to the current license, libraries can send a message to the publisher and influence changes in the license.

Print Subscriptions to the weekly Nature remain widely available in the UW-Madison libraries.

Please Send Your Comments to Us

If you wish to comment on this issue to campus library administration

Please email:

Ken Frazier kfrazier@library.wisc.edu who is Director of the General Library System at UW-Madison.

Voice Your Concerns to the Publisher

If you share our concerns and wish to contact the publisher.

Please email:

Donna Muscatello d.muscatello@NATURENY.com who is Nature's Library Relations Manager. Your message will also be copied to UW Physics Librarian Kerry Kresse (kkresse@library.wisc.edu) who is a member of Nature's Library Advisory Board

More Information About the License

1. Nature Online

A campus site license would provide access to the following parts of Nature immediately upon publication of the paper copy:

  • Articles
  • Letters to Nature
  • Brief Communications
  • Scientific Correspondence
There would be a 12-issue embargo (3 month delay) on access to the other journal content, including: Opinion, News, Correspondence, Commentary, Book Reviews, Features, Special Essays, News & Views, News in Brief, Reviews, Daedelus, 50 Years Ago, 100 Years Ago, Obituary, Art & Science, Autumn Books, Briefing, Careers and Recruitment, Film Review, News Analysis, New Journals, New on the Market, News Profile, News & Views Feature, Progress, Review Article, Spring Books, Technology and Techniques & Technology.
2. Nature Monthlies

A campus site license would provide access to the following parts of the Nature monthlies immediately upon publication of the paper copy:

  • Nature Biotechnology - Research Articles
  • Nature Cell Biology - Articles, Brief Communications
  • Nature Genetics - Correspondence, Articles, Letters
  • Nature Immunology - Research Articles
  • Nature Medicine - Articles
  • Nature Neuroscience - Scientific Correspondence, Articles
  • Nature Structural Biology - Short Communications, Articles, Insight, Letters And Tables of Contents and Archives of this same material
There would be a 3-issue embargo (3 month delay) on access to the other journal content, including: Editorial, Opinion, News, Correspondence, Commentary, Book Reviews, Features, Special Essays (e.g. Millennium Essay), News, News & Views, In Brief, Business and Regulatory News, Analysis, History, Picture Story, Feature, Reviews, Bioentrepreneurship, Brief, Corrigenda, Comment, Strategic Planning, Communication, Editorial Reprise, Foreword, Finance, The environment, Feeding the World, Human Health, Historical Perspective, Introduction, Letters to the Editor, Mergers & Acquisitions, Management, Marketplace, Meeting Review, Meeting, News & Views (Touching Base), News on Markets, Obituary, Overview, Perspective, Progress, Product Review, Regional Development, Research Review, Resources, Social Issues and Archives of this same material.

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Last updated April 12, 2001