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Online Archive: Online archive: available from July 1997.

Special issues: Nature Insights: every few weeks Nature contains an attractive bound-in editorial supplement of review articles focusing on a particular area. Topics to be covered in 2002 include the heart, malaria, physics of cold atoms and model organisms.

Web specials: Nature's website contains additional online-only material, including the community-based Physics Portal, Cancer Update and Genome Gateway. Plus Nature Science Update and supplementary data to published papers.