Nature reiterates policy toward preprints

Nature respects preprint servers, Nature 434, 257 (17 March 2005.) (Access restricted to subscribers.) A brief editorial argues that Nature has been unfairly maligned with regard to authors depositing their papers in preprint archives, and states: "if scientists wish to display drafts of their research papers on an established preprint server before or during submission to Nature or any Nature journal, that's fine by us." The six-month embargo on postprint self-archiving is not mentioned, however.