with over 7000 staff operating in more than 80 ｃｏｕｎｔries, macmillan publishers ltd is one of the largest and best known international publishing groups in the world. it is ｃｈａｒacterized by high-quality academic and scholarly, educational, fiction and non-fiction publishing in many forms; from stm and social science journals to serious non-fiction and literary fiction; from educational course materials and dictionaries to college textbooks, academic monographs and reference with supporting online resource sites.as a privately-owned company, one of macmillan’s strengths is its ability to focus on organic development and investment for the long term. macmillan prides itself on a willingness to innovate as well as on employing visionary people with the creative and business sense to develop and implement new ideas. this focus has successfully led to the expansion of the group into new business areas and an ability to innovate, especially in the digital space.macmillan is particularly unusual in the publishing world in its commitment to service and is one of the only publishing groups to provide other publishers with services right across the author to reader cycle.公司主页：www.macmillan.com《自然》周刊（nature）由nature出版集团出版，是世界上最早的国际性科技期刊，也是全球最著名的科技期刊之一。nature及相关出版物具有极高的影响因子，是生物学及物理学等自然基础科学各学科领域的核心刊物。nature publishing group is a division of macmillan publishers ltd, a global publishing group founded in the united kingdom in 1843.nature publishing group (npg) is a publisher of high impact scientific and medical information in print and online. npg publishes journals, online databases, and services across the life, physical, chemical and applied sciences and clinical medicine.自然出版集团主页：www.nature.com