Nature Publishing Group Offers Access Through ATHENS

(PRWEB) October 4, 2006

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is pleased to announce that nature.com is now ATHENS compliant. Remote access through ATHENS is essential to how the academic and medical communities use online subscriptions, and NPG is delighted to now be able to support this important channel.

Athens compliancy applies to all NPG publications, including Nature-branded and NPG academic and society journals. Importantly, usage of both remote and IP access will be reported in customers’ monthly usage statistic reports.

Bethan Creighton (née Bingham), Academic Sales Manager, said: “I am delighted that we can now offer customers ATHENS compliancy. My team and I are looking forward to contacting our UK customers with the good news they have been waiting for, and to offering a positive solution to remote access queries.”

NPG is now working to become Shibboleth compliant.

About Athens

Athens is an access management system for controlling secure access to web based services. It offers remote access user accounts to multiple web-based services using a secure single sign-on. http://www.athens.co.uk

About NPG

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 http://www.nature.com/news and scientific career information through Naturejobs.

NPG is a global company with headquarters in London and offices in New York, San Francisco, Washington DC, Boston, Tokyo, Paris, Munich, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Delhi, Mexico City and Basingstoke. For more information, please go to http://www.nature.com.

Contact details:

Suzanne Kidd

Communications Marketing Manager

Nature Publishing Group, London

T: +44 (0)20 7843 4609

Links:

http://www.athens.co.uk
http://www.nature.com

This press release is also available at http://www.nature.com/press_releases/NPG_ATHENS_compliant.pdf.

For all NPG press releases, go to http://www.nature.com/press_releases.html.

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