Springer Naure is a research and educational publisher that offers a wide variety of products and services. It was formed in 2015 through the merger of Springer Science+Business Media and Holtzbrinck Publishing Group’s Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan.
Its research journals publish robust and insightful work, advance discovery, and make ideas and information accessible around the world. It also supports librarians and societies with innovations in technology and data.
It is a research and educational publisher
Springer Naure is a research and educational publisher that serves researchers and scientists in the United Kingdom and worldwide. It offers imprints, books, journals, and resources to help customers find information about science.
Its primary shareholders are Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and BC Partners, a private equity firm. The two companies have a majority shareholding in the company and own 53% of its equity.
The company is a leader in Open Access primary research. It publishes more than 16% of the world's Open Access articles as of December 2021. Its flagship journals include Nature and Science.
Despite its leadership in the field of OA, Springer has been somewhat less active than other publishers when it comes to data analytics initiatives. It has also been criticized for its use of software to write papers.
Some academic conferences have banned the use of ChatGPT, which allows users to interact with a computer program for a writing task. Some have even banned ChatGPT from schools, colleges, and sites that depend on sharing reliable information.
One of the reasons behind this is that software cannot be meaningfully accountable for a publication, claim intellectual property rights for its work, or correspond with other scientists and the press to explain and answer questions on its work. Moreover, there are no guarantees that the program will be able to accurately and reliably perform these tasks.
In addition, Springer has retracted a number of papers for being filled with gibberish or being overtly racist. Some of these papers were published in Springer Nature’s Geosciences journal, and they included topics like China being a country that is inhabited by ants and Taiwan being a place where people live with the same name.
Springer Nature retracted these papers in August 2020 and in September 2020 it announced an agreement with the University of California (UC) that would enable UC authors to make their research freely accessible via an open access article publishing model. This was the first such transformative open access agreement in the United States and among the largest transformative agreements in North America up to that point.
It offers imprints
As a research and educational publisher, Springer Nature serves customers in the United Kingdom and around the world. It offers imprints, books and journals that span a wide range of subject areas. It also offers digital products, such as the SpringerLink content platform.
As one of the world's largest academic publishers, it is home to a number of well known brands, including Springer, Nature, BMC and Palgrave Macmillan. It is also a participant in the CLOCKSS consortium. It has a comprehensive collection of digital content and an extensive digital library. The company boasts a portfolio of about 60,000 digital books, as well as an impressive e-book catalogue with a plethora of searchable content. It is one of the largest publishers in the United Kingdom, and is headquartered in London.
As a leading open access (OA) publisher, Springer Nature has been a leader in the open science movement since at least 2012. The company was one of the first publishers to sign a formal OA agreement with the British Library and it is the home of the coveted "green" library. As of 2017, it has over a dozen OA journals and a library of over 300,000 digital titles, including some of the world's most popular online textbooks. Its OA initiatives include an e-book scheme and an archiving program for its extensive library holdings.
It offers books
The publisher offers a wide range of books, including e-books and peer-reviewed journals. It also hosts several scientific databases, such as SpringerLink and Springer Images. It has been in business since 1865 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
Its main product lines are science, technology and medical (STM) publishing. The company boasts a global footprint and is considered the world's second-largest academic publisher. Its e-books are available in PDF and mobi format.
As part of its push into digital publishing, it recently released an augmented reality app that allows users to view content from its books and journals. The app combines augmented reality (AR), image pattern recognition and text recognition technologies to deliver supplementary information, such as videos, handouts and Q&As.
In an effort to improve the way researchers share their findings with the world, Springer Nature and RWTH Aachen University have collaborated on a new format called crosstracts, which will be rolled out in phases over the next few years. Using a combination of AI, VR and print-on-demand technology, it will make it faster and easier to publish and disseminate research results and build interdisciplinary collaborations across academia.
The publisher has just published its 2,000th open-access book, Past, Present and Future of a Habitable Earth: The Development Strategy of Earth Science 2021 to 2030 from the Research Group on Development Strategy of Earth Science in China. While it’s not a true first for the company, it is the aforementioned one that catches the eye. It is also the first scholarly book authored entirely by artificial intelligence.
It offers journals
The publisher offers a wide range of journals that cover the fields of medicine, science and humanities. These are primarily open access (OA) publications, which means that the journal articles published in them are available for free to anyone in the world with internet access. They are published under Creative Commons licenses, which allow re-use and sharing of the journal articles without attribution or any fees.
Springer Naure is one of the largest research publishers in the world, with a worldwide portfolio of about 13,000 scientific and professional journals. It was formed in 2015 by the merger of Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan and Macmillan Education, with Springer Science+Business Media as its parent company.
It is the first publisher to offer a deal that makes all articles by University of California authors in its flagship journals, including Nature, immediately OA. The move is a major milestone in the UC system's effort to push all scientific journals toward OA.
Moreover, the deal gives UC the opportunity to read 1000 more journals than its current contract with Springer Nature allows, while reducing net payments in 2021 by at least 5% from this year's level. The new deal is also a big step toward UC's goal of getting all the research it funds to be published in OA, says Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, a UC Berkeley university librarian and co-chair of the UC's publisher negotiation team.
The deal also includes a commitment by Springer Nature to explore making all articles that UC corresponding authors publish in the Nature family of journals, which numbers 148 titles, immediately free to read starting in 2022. UC says this is the first such commitment that it has secured from a commercial publisher and will be a key element in its overall OA strategy.