Business of APIs Conference – Oct 2011
APIs and Science Publishing
Nature.com
Chandran Honour
25 Oct 2011
Overview
- Intro - About Nature Publishing (3 mins) - Science Publishing (3 mins)
- NPG Developer Community (3mins) - Questions (3 mins)
About Nature Publishing Group
● Small, family-owned: less than 100 journals in total ● 33 ‘Nature’ titles – including 16 review titles ● Magazines including Scientific American part of the ‘family’ ● 1000 employees in 17 offices on 5 continents ● 28 society partners ● 53 academic and society journals ● Online services, databases, conferences/events, multimedia ● We aim to be the best – not the biggest • 32% of the top 50 science journals by Impact Factor (16/50);
(2009 JCR*) • 15 NPG journals #1 in their fields by Impact Factor (2009 JCR)
*Source: 2009 Journal Citation Report, (Thomson Reuters, 2010)"
About Nature Publishing: Company values
Nature’s 1869 mission statement, still guides us today:
“FIRST, to place before the general public the grand results of Scientific Work and Scientific Discovery ; and to urge the claims of Science to a more general recognition in Education and in Daily Life ;
And, SECONDLY, to aid Scientific men themselves, by giving early information of all advances made in any branch of Natural knowledge throughout the world, and by affording them an opportunity of discussing the various Scientific questions which arise from time to time.”
As part of Macmillan, we are guided by its values
First Issue of Nature
Nature Publishing - Timeline
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Nature.com launched - 1995
Tim Berners Lee invents Web - 1990
Publishing Today – Open Access Content
Why is Open Access important? wider access and availability to the latest published research papers is the key to enabling greater collaboration amongst scientists and researchers or open science as it is known in the scientific community.
How does it work? – removing the cost of downloading the paper means that any researcher with a potential interest in the topic can down the information and use it to further their own research interests, thus increasing the impact of original paper.
How has it grown? – recent studies have shown a significant growth in the number of Open Access journals and publishers offering article search at journal level. – this now been embraced by NPG and other major publishers as a primary means to
Applications Productivity Tools
Citation management Authoring tools Lab management
Network/Impact Analysis Measuring article/author impact
Content discovery Finding relevant research
Social / Communication Apps Connecting like-minded researchers
Visualisation Other
Google Gadget for Nature.com search
Creative Mashups using PubMed API
With self-citations External citations only
Nature Blogs + Circos
Visualizing Neuroscience Blog Citations
With self-citations External citations only
Nature Blogs + Circos
The Developer Portal
➲ Overview – goals:
➲ – to provide quality data to enable the creation of new scientific applications
➲ - provide a single place for documentation and support for APIs on the web
➲ - to create a developer community to allow sharing of ideas and information
The Developer Portal
API Business Model – Developer Tiers
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Tier 0- keyless - public access – meta-data (search results, abstracts provided by opensearch),
lists of links (e.g blogs aggregation) and RSS feeds
Tier 1 – non-commercial developers - keyed/unlimited - research developers want to build apps but not monetise them
Tier 2 – non-commercial re-use developers- keyed/rate limited bundles
Tier 3 – commercial developers – bespoke
Keyed API Access via the Portal • Keyed access – developers are required to register for API access on
the portal and receive an API access key after confirming via registration link.
• Quota and rate limits are set – the portal allows configuration of quotas are rate limits based on the level of access granted (this is confgured manually for premium users and insitutional clients who agree access directly with NPG sales staff.)
APIs Overview
Opensearch – open search gateway allows querying of nature.com article meta-data and abstracts via an SRU/CQL query interface
Blogs API search and retrieval of science-related blog (meta-data), posts and related papers and journals.
The Future
Portal launch – planned for Nov 2011 http://developers.nature.com
Developer events – website launch, mailing lists, hackathon, webinars – planned for 2012
New APIs – Content – toc, articles, top content – Jobs – Events – Research highlights – Protocol Exchange (experimental know-how) – News
Questions and Answers
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