Nature.com research papers made freely shareable | The Bookseller

Macmillan Science and Education c.e.o. Annette Thomas [pictured] commented: "We exist to serve the information needs of researchers, to help them in their work, and ultimately in making discoveries in order to improve the way we all live. We have, over many decades, published a wealth of world-leading scientific knowledge through our family of journals. Today we are able to present a new way to conveniently share and disseminate this knowledge using technology from one of our innovative and disruptive divisions - Digital Science - to provide a real solution to the global problem of how to efficiently and legitimately share scientific research for the benefit of all." She told The Bookseller: "Within the academic space this step is completely unique, because it's combining access to the highest impact scientific content in the world with the first technology that allows frictionless sharing to subscribers and non-subscribers, and also annotation of content. Scientists collaborate more and more, yet there has been no optimal tool to share knowledge "it [the academic space] really hasn't kept up with technology in the consumer space, such as restaurant reviews, or your music library."