Nature Publishing Group (NPG) now offers remote searching of the nature.com platform via nature.com OpenSearch. The new service allows application software to query nature.com, and returns results in a machine-readable format that can be reused and redisplayed.

To show how the OpenSearch service can be used, NPG has developed nature.com search desktop widgets for Mac and PC. The widgets are available for download at Apple Downloads and Yahoo! Widgets Gallery . See the screencast> on YouTube for an introduction.

This is all a part of improving availability of article metadata on the nature.com platform, to make our content more useful for the research and information communities.

More information is available in our press release, which summarises some of the related improvements we’ve made over the past year.