18th April 2008
Nature Publishing Group announces six new publishing initiatives in the Asia-Pacific region
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is pleased to announce five new co-publishing agreements for 2009 in Japan and China and the launch of the
NPG Asia Materials website with the Tokyo Institute of Technology, one of Japan’s leading universities. NPG Asia Materials is the precursor to a new Asian-based journal devoted to materials research. These developments are a landmark in Nature Publishing Group’s
strategy, announced in January 2006, to expand its publishing operations across the Asia-Pacific region.
NPG Nature Asia-Pacific, the Asia-Pacific wing of NPG, has partnered in China with the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy
of Sciences, to co-publish Acta Pharmacologica Sinica and the Asian Journal of Andrology (which is also sponsored by Shanghai Jiao Tong University) from January 2009. Together with an existing publishing partnership for the journal Cell Research with the Shanghai
Institutes for Biological Sciences, from 2009, NPG will publish three of mainland China’s top ranked journals in life science or chemistry.
In Japan, NPG Nature Asia-Pacific has finalized agreements for January 2009 onwards with the Japan Antibiotics Research Association to
publish the Journal of Antibiotics, with the Japan Society for Human Genetics to publish the Journal of Human Genetics and with the Japan Society of Hypertension to publish Hypertension Research.
The NPG Asia Materials website (www.natureasia.com/asia-materials) hosted on NPG’s regional website at www.natureasia.com publishes research
highlights each month written by experienced NPG-selected science writers. The highlights describe in easy-to-understand terms articles
published in leading journals that are authored by researchers in the Asia-Pacific region. The articles highlighted are selected by an
editorial committee headed by Hideo Takezoe, a leading polymer researcher at Tokyo Institute of Technology, and are based on recommendations
from an advisory committee of scientists from around the Asia-Pacific region. Peer-reviewed primary research and review articles will be
added at a later stage to create an Asian-based journal that will move onto NPG’s main website at
www.nature.com.
“It is a tremendous boon to NPG to be announcing this collection of new initiatives in the region,” says David Swinbanks, the Publishing
Director of NPG responsible for the Asia-Pacific region and CEO of NPG Nature Asia-Pacific. “By building on the reputations of these five
international journals and by launching the NPG Asia Materials website we can publish and highlight some of the best research from the region in the life, medical, chemical and physical sciences and communicate it to the relevant communities around the world.”
These landmark agreements, alongside the recent launches of the Nature China, A IMBN Research and Nature India websites
(see www.natureasia.com), and the launch of the journal Nature Photonics with its core editorial team based in Tokyo, mark the next steps in NPG’s broader strategy to publish the best research in the Asia-Pacific region.
About NPG and NPG Nature Asia-Pacific
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, was first published in 1869. Other publications include Nature research journals, Nature Reviews, Nature Clinical Practice and a range of prestigious academic journals including society-owned publications. NPG also provides news content through Nature News. Scientific career information and free job postings are offered on Naturejobs.
NPG Nature Asia-Pacific is the Asia-Pacific wing of NPG, set up to serve the growing needs of the scientific, engineering and medical
communities in the region, and has offices in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Delhi and Melbourne. For more information, please visit
www.natureasia.com.
NPG is a global company with headquarters in London and offices in New York, San Francisco, Washington DC, Boston, Tokyo, Paris, Madrid,
Munich, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Delhi, Mexico City and Basingstoke. For more information, please go to
www.nature.com.
Contact details:
David Swinbanks
Publishing Director NPG
CEO NPG Nature Asia-Pacific
Tokyo, Japan
T: +81 3 3267 8764
E: d.swinbanks@nature.com
Related Press releases:
Nature Publishing Group to co-publish two top-quality international
journals based in China (2 April 2008) PDF
NPG Asia Materials website launches (4 April 2008) PDF
Nature Publishing Group to partner with the Japan Antibiotics
Research Association (8 April 2008) PDF
Nature Publishing Group to partner with the Japan Society for Human Genetics
(11 April 2008) PDF
Nature Publishing Group to co-publish with the Japanese Society of Hypertension
(17 April 2008) PDF
Links:
Acta Pharmacologica Sinica: www.chinaphar.com
Asian Journal of Andrology: www.asiaandro.com
Hypertension Research: www.jpnsh.org/hypertensionres.html
Japan Antibiotics Research Association: www.antibiotics.or.jp/
Japan Society for Human Genetics: http://jshg.jp/
Japanese Society of Hypertension: www.jpnsh.org/index_e.html
Journal of Antibiotics: www.antibiotics.or.jp/journal/ja-top.htm
Nature China: www.nature.com/nchina
Nature Japan: www.natureasia.com/japan/index.php
Nature Publishing Group: www.nature.com
NPG Asia Materials: www.natureasia.com/asia-materials
NPG Nature Asia-Pacific: www.natureasia.com
Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica: www.simm.ac.cn/English/English.htm
Shanghai Jiao Tong University: www.sjtu.edu.cn/english/index/index.htm
Tokyo Institute of Technology: www.titech.ac.jp/
For further information please contact Sara Lloyd
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