• 
• http://www.natureprotocols.com
• Editor: Katharine Barnes
• ISSN: 1754-2189
• Impact factor : 1.671*
• Impact ranking: 43/60 in Biochemical Research Methods*
• Date Established: June 2006
• Published on behalf of:

Aims and Scope:
Nature Protocols is an interactive online resource for laboratory protocols for bench researchers. Protocols are presented in a 'recipe' style providing step-by-step descriptions of procedures that users can take to the lab bench and immediately apply in their own research. Protocols on the site are fully searchable and organized into logical categories to be easily accessible to researchers. Nature Protocols is also now available in print.

Nature Protocols come from a variety of sources. The core content, the Nature Protocols, are high quality, peer-reviewed procedures commissioned by the Nature Protocols editorial team. The site also contains protocols derived from supplementary information from Nature research journals within the Protocols Network. The Protocols Network includes supplier protocols and content posted directly on the site by the scientific community using social software. Nature Protocols online functionality and features are constantly updated.

Nature Protocols is only available with an institutional site license and publishes protocols being used to answer outstanding biological and biomedical science research questions, including methods grounded in physics and chemistry that have a practical application to the study of biological problems.

Nature Protocols contains:

• High quality peer reviewed protocols written by leading authorities in the field.
• Detailed lab protocols used in primary research papers from NPG's Nature branded journals. Authors are encouraged to submit their protocols within the Nature Protocols template, and protocols are the top researchers, Nature Protocols will allow users to not published in full elsewhere on nature.com.
• Company protocols from product suppliers.
• Community posted protocols and related comments and links.

Readership:
Nature Protocols appeals to a broad audience from researchers and technical staff to post-doctoral fellows and faculty, interested in the biomedical, biological sciences and chemistry at academic, commercial, governmental organizations and research institutions.

Online features and site license access:

• Online archive available back to June 2006.
• A site license provides access to all content published during the supply period. Access is granted to a further rolling four-year archive during the supply period only. Archive content not included in the license agreement is available to purchase.
• Users have access to all the online features of nature.com click here for details.
• Site license customers will benefit from the services available click here for details.
• Unique online functionality includes social software that enables the scientific community to share protocols and make comments about the protocols.

*2007 Journal Citation Report (Thomson Reuters, 2008)