All Press Releases

London | Canberra, 20 October 2021

Springer Nature announces its first TA in the Asia-Pacific region. 

Heidelberg | London, 18 October 2021 

Springer Nature is now offering researchers the opportunity to have their books and manuscripts auto-translated free of charge.

London | New York | Berlin, 5 August 2021

Springer Nature furthers commitment to climate action.

London | New York | Heidelberg, 13 October 2021

In celebration of this year’s winners their contributions to Springer Nature publications have been made available on a dedicated landing page

11th October 2021

Springer Nature announces the appointment of Chris Graf, a highly experienced integrity specialist who joins the publisher as its new Research Integrity Director, based in London.

Heidelberg | London, 07 October 2021 

Springer Nature has created a programme of virtual events on hot topics and trends facing the publishing industry and will also be present during the actual fair with a physical booth.

London | New York, 4 October 2021

Shortlist released for awards recognising the achievements of women in science.

24 September 2021

Latest Nature Index 2021 Science Cities places new focus on research relevant to the ten SDGs most relevant to the natural science - with Beijing placing as top.

London | New York | Berkeley, 21 September 2021

Year long pilot will provide a window into the use of protocols in lab experiments to better understand underlying methods and practices within the researcher workflow

16th September 2021

Springer Nature Group announces the appointment of Venkatesh Sarvasiddhi as the new Managing Director of Springer Nature India.

London | 16th September 2021

Springer Nature joins the Pistoia Alliance to advance discovery and research solutions for life sciences.

London, 14th September 2021

Editor in Chief, Nature, delivers speech at opening plenary of the Science Summit of the UN General Assembly.

London | New York, 14 September 2021

2021 Nature Research Award for Driving Global Impact shortlist released.

14 September 2021

10 English-language academic books announced as winners of this year's China New Development Awards.

London | Berlin | New York, 18 August 2021

Springer Nature signs Joint Commitment for Action on Inclusion and Diversity in Publishing

August 6, 2021 | Tokyo

The Julius Springer Scholarships, presented at an award ceremony in July 2021, are intended to remove some of the financial barriers to study.

London | New York | Berlin, 5 August 2021

Springer Nature steps up approach to climate action.

London | New York | Darmstadt, 12 July 2021

HighT-Tech announced as winner of The Spinoff Prize 2021.

London | Baltimore  06th July 2021

NAACP will award world-renowned Engineer-Physician-Scientist, at it's 112th Annual Convention.

London | New York | Berlin, 29th June 2021

Publisher launches name change policy to enable transgender scholars and others to update their name on published works. 

London | New York | Darmstadt, 24 June 2021

Shortlist announced for The Spinoff Prize.

New York, 10 June 2021

As part of its ongoing strategic intent to provide the best possible service to the US research ecosystem, Springer Nature is launching a US Research Advisory Council (USRAC).

London, 10 June, 2021 

BC Partners, a leading international investment firm, has today announced a new Single Asset Acquisition Fund (the “Fund”), led by funds advised by Neuberger Berman, a private, independent, employee-owned investment manager.

Heidelberg | London, 20 May 2021 

New sponsoring partnership between LYRASIS and Springer Nature for a suite of open access books on climate change, equity, peace, and justice will advance global collaboration

Cape Town 21st May 2021

Global publisher aims to support researchers and students with return to teaching and learning

Heidelberg | London, 20 May 2021 

The African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation will be open access; immediately available to all to build on knowledge 

London | Berlin | Sydney 20th May 2021

Nature Index Tables released today.

London | May 13th, 2021

The academic publisher acquires full ownership of BJC enhancing its international growth and development.

London | Berlin | New York  May 7, 2021

New digital magazine publishes freely accessible science news, research highlights and feature stories by African researchers

Heidelberg | London, 04 Mai 2021 

Climate, Planetary and Evolutionary Sciences: A Machine-Generated Literature Overview marks a further step in the innovation journey of publishing services at Springer Nature 

London | New York  May 3, 2021

Springer Nature and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) are pleased to announce the release of a new white paper

London May 5, 2021

Publisher holds the highest number of national transformative agreements in Europe enabling researchers from over 2,100 affiliated institutions to publish OA

London, 23 April 2021

Macmillan Education Limited, part of Springer Nature Group, announces the sale of Red Globe Press to Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

London | Berlin | New York  21 April 2021

Springer Nature Group signs The Climate Pledge, committing to taking action on climate change. 

London | Berlin | Wiesbaden, 19 April 2021

The BookSubMarine portal makes it easier for authors from all academic disciplines to submit their theses and provides comprehensive support throughout the publication process

London | New York 15th April 2021

Springer Nature and the University of California launch initiative to better understanding attitudes and motivations towards open research practices

London | New York, 12 April 2021

Nature Research Awards, part of Springer Nature, and The Estée Lauder Companies are now accepting applications from women researchers and those promoting STEM to girls and young women

London | Berlin | New York 8th April 2021

Launching its latest Sustainable Business Report, Springer Nature shares how it is making a positive difference on diversity, climate and the UN Sustainable Development Goals

London, 6 April 2021

Researchers who have shown great courage and integrity in standing up for science and scientific reasoning can be nominated until 14 June 2021  

London | 1st April 2021

The publisher agrees TA with IReL deepening commitment to open science by supporting an increasing number of regions and researchers to publish OA

Berkeley | Heidelberg | London, 23 March 2021 

Agreement to publish open access books across all subject areas will increase the reach and impact of future publications.

London | Sydney | Berlin, 17 March 2021

Sustainability, climate change and biomedical science are research areas of interest across the APAC countries

London | New York | Berlin, 11 March 2021

Two new transformative journals and a review journal provide a venue for cross-disciplinary research in the natural, applied and social sciences

Berlin | London | Paris | Amsterdam, 10th March 2021 

Springer Nature has acquired Atlantis Press, an open access (OA) publisher specialising in conference proceedings and journal publishing, founded in 2006 in Paris.

London | 18th February 2021

Data from Springer Nature shows majority of researchers want access to the ‘more credible’ final published version of articles, increasing support for immediate gold OA

London | 12th February 2021

Publisher signs its first transformative agreement in Southern Europe with CRUI-CARE in Italy

8 February 2021 | Tokyo

Applications are now open for the Julius Springer scholarship, which will fund the educational costs of a total of two university students in Japan with €12,500 (approx. 1.5 million JPY) each.

London | Dordrecht, 4 February 2021

Bohn Stafleu van Loghum (BSL), part of Springer Nature Group, has this week completed the acquisition of Dentallect a Netherlands-based e-learning platform that specialises in training for dental assistants.

London | 03 February 2021

Signatories publish statement on Rights Retention Strategy.

London, 29 January 2021

Springer Nature Group signs up to The Valuable 500, committing to do more to make a positive difference to disability inclusion.

London | 20th January 2021

UK Springer Compact Agreement extends to 2022 and will now include the AJs on nature.com.

Berlin | London | New York, 12 January 2021

Springer Nature Group’s Chief Executive Officer Frank Vrancken Peeters has announced changes to the company’s Management Board and Executive Team. 

London | Berlin, 12 January 2021

Springer Nature CEO, Frank Vrancken Peeters outlines fundamental role of partnerships and collaboration in achieving open science.

London | Berlin | New York  21 December 2020

The Compact aims to accelerate progress to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.

London, 21 December 2020

Computational biologist, Hanah Margalit, is the winner of the lifetime achievement award, while cancer researcher Neta Erez and molecular biologist Tal Pupko jointly receive the mid-career award

Beijing | Heidelberg, 18 Dezember 2020

The award reflects his efforts to promote academic and scientific books from China to the global academic community.

London, 14 December 2020

The 2020 John Maddox Prize for standing up for science has been awarded to Anthony Fauci and Salim Abdool Karim for their communication of accurate medical advice to the public in the US and South Africa respectively | Additional prize for an early career researcher goes to Anne Abbott

London | Sydney | Berlin, 9 December 2020

Nature Index Artificial Intelligence (AI) supplement investigates emerging trends in AI research output alongside an experiment in AI-powered curation

Berlin | London | New York, 03 December 2020 

Nature Research renamed  ‘Nature Portfolio’

London, 1 December 2020

New report outlines the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on research and how this has influenced researchers' data sharing behaviour

Heidelberg | London, 30th November 2020

Joint study by  Springer Nature, VSNU and UKB, tracks wider impact of SDG related content when published Gold OA 

London | Sydney | Berlin, 25 November 2020

The Nature Index Germany supplement finds that strong and steady science funding and long-term investment in basic research are key to Germany’s success

London | Heidelberg 24th November 2020

APC rolled out across all Nature research journals, plus new experimental guided pilot

London | New York | Berlin, 7 November 2020

Joshua Vogel is honoured for his research and vision which could lead to the prevention of newborn deaths due to premature births, especially in low- and middle-income countries

Berlin | Munich | London  20th October 2020

Landmark agreement between Springer Nature and MPDL creates a route to OA for Nature research journals.

Milan | London | New York, 19 October 2020

New digital magazine will bring scientific research and issues of science policy in Italy to the wider research community and general public

London | New York | Berlin, 14 October 2020

Samira Asgari, an Iranian computational biologist, and Chicas en Tecnología , an Argentinian non-profit organisation, have been selected as the winners of this year’s award, organised by Nature Research and The Estée Lauder Companies

London | New York | Heidelberg, 13 October 2020

Publications from the 2020 Nobel Prize winners are accessible through a specially dedicated landing page

London | Heidelberg, 06 October 2020

Libraries and research institutions to have more choice and greater flexibility in order to access digital book content in ways that work for them.

London | Heidelberg, 29 September 2020

With the Frankfurt Book Fair not taking place as a physical event this year, Springer Nature is instead opening its doors to its first virtual hub. 

London | 19th September 2020

Beijing, New York and Boston lead scientific research according to Nature Index 2020 Science cities.

London | Heidelberg, 15 September 2020

London | Heidelberg, 10 September 2020

New Springer Nature white paper analyses geographical diversity and usage of OA books.

London | Berlin 09 September 2020

Following positive feedback from the pilot phases, an expanded cooperation will see articles from all Springer Nature-owned journals syndicated to ResearchGate

London 9th September 2020

 International postdoc survey from Nature shows  impact of pandemic on postdoctoral-researchers

September 2020

London | Berlin, 25 August 2020

New data demonstrates Springer Nature’s national TAs increase number of authors publishing OA to over 70%.

A statement from Springer Nature in response to an article published in Society.

London | New York | Darmstadt, 13 July 2020

Company working on flexible devices to monitor heart rate and blood pressure in premature babies wins award created by Nature Research and Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

Lisbon | London | Berlin, 1 July 2020

Springer Nature welcomes its first employees in Lisbon where it will create more than 30 new jobs this year. This will be the first stage in a longer-term development of a larger office.

London | New York | Darmstadt, 30 June 2020

Young science-based university spinoff companies showcase their visions and strategies in the final rounds of a new award created by Nature Research and Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

Springer Nature and the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries have now concluded the final agreement for a new transformative read and publish deal with swissuniversities.

London, 29 June 2020

Healthcare professionals (HCPs) worldwide are able to maximize their learning and make measurable changes to their own practice through new website

London | Heidelberg 23 June 2020

Discover Journal series from largest OA publisher enables swift route to OA through enhanced author services.

London | New York, 16 June 2020

First transformative agreement in North America for Springer Nature and largest in the United States.

London | Heidelberg, 15 June 2020

Nature Research authors latest to benefit from free integrated preprint sharing service.

2 June 2020 | New York

Scientific American’s international network of magazines has launched a public webpage that combines COVID-19 stories from five of its publications.

Seoul | Sydney, 27 May 2020

Nature Index 2020 South Korea, published in the May 28 issue of Nature, investigates South Korea’s strategy to become a “first mover” by investing in basic research grants and original discoveries.

London | Heidelberg, 20 May 2020

Publisher becomes largest research publisher to sign DORA.

London | Heidelberg, 18 May 2020

Open access book output has doubled in two years, supporting Springer Nature’s commitment to open research

London | 13th May 2020

First open access publisher, BMC celebrates its 20th Anniversary

London | Berlin | Sydney, 29 April 2020

The 2020 Nature Index Annual Tables show strong performances from institutions with considerable funding and reputation as well as rising stars

Paris | Heidelberg | London, 23 April 2020 

Springer Nature and UNESCO have signed an agreement to publish open access books on a range of issues cutting across major research areas such as education, culture, the natural sciences, the human and social sciences and communication and information 

London | Berlin | Sydney, 22 April 2020

The Nature Index 2020 Cancer supplement tracks trends in cancer research output and collaboration, as well as research funding and progress in the prevention, treatment and survival rate for different forms of the disease

London | New York | Berlin, 21 April 2020

Nature Aging, Nature Reviews Methods Primers and Nature Computational Science will join Springer Nature’s portfolio starting January 2021

London | New York | Heidelberg, 16 April 2020 

New partnership allows small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) cost-effective access to Springer Nature’s full collection of journals and ebooks

London 15 April 2020

Springer Nature has reached an understanding on a new transformative read and publish deal with swissuniversities. 

London | New York | Berlin, 9 April 2020

Application period now open for award programme that acknowledges and celebrates outstanding women working in STEM research and outreach

London | Berlin 08  April 2020

Springer Nature's response to revised criteria and targets from cOAlition S.

London | New York | Heidelberg, 6 April 2020

New white paper analyses data from Springer Nature authors and interviews with institutions to better understand the fragmented and varied funding currently available for article processing charges (APCs)

New transformative read and publish deal agreed with Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India

London | Berlin, 02 April 2020

A range of essential textbooks from all disciplines will be freely available to support higher education institutions worldwide 

London | Berlin, 26 March 2020

Springer Nature Group publishes its annual Responsible Business report on its environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance.

New York | London | Heidelberg, 19 March 2020 

Open access chemistry database PubChem will now include thousands of links to chemical and physical properties of materials from the SpringerMaterials database

London, 13th March 2020

In publishing over 100,000 OA articles in one year, Springer Nature is the largest OA publisher of primary research.

New York, 11 March 2020

Helmuth becomes the ninth Editor-in-Chief in the nearly 175-year history of the magazine.

London | New York | Berlin, 9 March 2020

Researchers who have shown great courage and integrity in standing up for science and scientific reasoning can be nominated until 11 May 2020 

London | Berlin, 5 March 2020

Springer Nature Group commits to be net carbon neutral this year, as part of an ongoing reduction in emissions and broader responsible business programme.

London, 26 February 2020 

Under the new arrangement, the companies will now offer a full selection of transformative opportunities to maximize their customers’ researchers’ options in the emerging world of Open Access and Big Data.

London | New York | Berlin, 12 February 2020

Communications Materials and Communications Earth & Environment join Springer Nature’s comprehensive portfolio of around 600 open access journals

London | Beijing, 10 February 2020

The application period for this year’s Nature Research Award for Driving Global Impact, in partnership with Tencent, is now open  

Heidelberg | London, 04 February 2020

Springer Nature continues its commitment to opening up research and enabling the advancement of discovery with the rollout of the SharedIt initiative to proceedings books.

Springer Nature signs the consensus statement related to the outbreak of coronavirus and has created a live research hub relevant to coronavirus research.

New York | Warrendale, 30 January 2020

All journals and books in the MRS portfolio will be published in partnership with Springer Nature from January 2021

Heidelberg | London | Athens, 27 January 2020 

Springer Nature and OpenAIRE have signed an agreement to build an Open Science-driven scholarly communication record that brings research and data closer together

In response to the Coronavirus outbreak, Springer Nature has created a resource hub, that is being continually updated, to collate resources relevant to coronavirus research.

Berlin 9th January 2020

Springer Nature and MPDL Services GmbH on behalf of Projekt DEAL announce that the formal contract for the world’s largest transformative OA agreement to date has been signed.

London, 17 December 2019 

As the largest OA publisher, and the publisher that first floated the idea of Transformative Journals, Springer Nature is appealing to cOAlition S in an open letter not to lose the opportunity Transformative Journals offer to speed up the transition to OA.

London | Sydney, 12 December 2019 

Springer Nature is collaborating with Digital Science, a leader in scholarly technology, on the compilation of the Nature Index

London, 12 December 2019

Springer Nature and VSNU partnership to explore societal impact of academic and open research and its influence on acceleration of the global SDGs

New York, 5 December 2019

Springer Nature's NYC office was honored by Oceanic Global for its commitment to sustainability.

Berlin | London, 4 December 2019

Springer Nature Group Chief Executive Officer Frank Vrancken Peeters has announced two new appointments, completing the line-up of his Executive Team. 

Singapore | Manila, 3 December 2019

SPi Global today announced it has signed a definitive agreement for the acquisition of Scientific Publishing Services, or SPS, from research and education publisher Springer Nature Group. The transaction is expected to close by the end of December 2019, subject to regulatory approval.

London | Heidelberg, 2 December 2019 

Applications are now open for The Spinoff Prize – a new award for visionary, science-based companies that are on their way to making a commercial impact; winning Spinoff to receive a prize of €30,000; applications open until Feb 28, 2020

London | Sydney | New York, 21 November 2019 

Latest Nature Index supplement shows US-China research collaborations to be stronger than ever, while UK-EU collaborations stall

London | New York, 13 November 2019 

Survey of over 6,300 PhD students worldwide shows most to be satisfied with their PhD experience, but highlights issues affecting student well-being such as working hours, funding and bullying

London | New York, 12 November 2019 

Users of Nature.com to benefit from better off campus user experience

London, 4 November 2019

“I hope that when I voice support to my brother in the future […] he’ll be able to hear it, receive it, and not feel alone.”

Beijing, 3 November 2019

UK neuroscientist Tom Baden also recognised for his efforts to democratize access to instruments that are highly specialized and often expensive.

London | Sydney | New York, 23 October 2019

New Nature Index rankings of universities aged 50 and under reveal that institutes in Asian countries are performing particularly well in terms of output of high-quality research

London | New York | Heidelberg, 21 October 2019

Stephen Pincock takes over publishing functions for Nature and Scientific American following departure of Mariette DiChristina 

London | New York | Heidelberg, 16 October 2019

Articles, chapters and books by this year’s Nobel laureates are honored and acknowledged on a specially dedicated website

London | New York | Heidelberg, 15 October 2019

Computer scientist Jean Fan and educational charity The STEM Belle are recipients of this year’s Awards for Inspiring and Innovating Science organized by Nature Research and The Estée Lauder Companies

London | New York | Berlin, 1 October 2019

A Nature Research survey shows a gap in training on collaborative skills provided to early-career researchers  

Berlin, 05 September 2019

Springer Nature Group announced today that Frank Vrancken Peeters, currently Chief Commercial Officer, is to become the group’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) with immediate effect.

London | Heidelberg | Vienna, 03 September 2019

Researchers and students in Austria continue to benefit from the proven "Read & Publish" model. | The agreement combines the opportunity to publish open access in more than 1,900 Springer journals with access to more than 2,000 subscription journals.

Beijing, 22 August 2019

Springer Nature today granted China New Development Awards to the Chinese authors of ten scholarly books in recognition of their exceptional contributions to the delivery of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. 

London, 22nd August 2019

World's largest transformative open access agreement will enable researchers and students affiliated with the participating institutions to publish OA in the vast majority of the Springer Nature journal portfolio, resulting in expected 13,000 articles per year.

London, 31 July 2019 

New collaboration provides life sciences clients with powerful engagement capabilities by combining high scientific intelligence and data driven performance 

Heidelberg | London | Seattle, 30 July 2019

Semantic Scholar, AI2's free AI-based academic search engine used by over 4 million researchers each month, partners with Springer Nature to power advanced discovery of academic research content

London, 25th July 2019

Springer Nature publishes the first conceptual design report that outline the designs for the next generation powerful particle colliders.

London | Berlin, 11 July 2019

Second phase includes testing of enhanced reporting for librarians and addition of Springer journals

London, 27 June 2019

Springer Nature and the Unit consortium in Norway have agreed in principle a transformative read and publish deal for 2020- 2022.

London, 27 June 2019

Two further new read and publish deals drive Springer Nature’s transformative deals into double figures

New York | Heidelberg, 20 June 2019 

Springer Nature Video offers insights, research and training material from experts/ Medicine and Professional and Applied Computing will be the first video subject collections 

London | Sydney | New York, 19 June 2019 

Major institutions in the US and China dominate the top ranks for output of quality research articles, but a new normalized Nature Index ranking reveals that some smaller institutes are punching well above their weight 

London | Berlin, 19 June 2019

A global Springer Nature survey of more than 2,500 academic book authors provides in-depth insights into perceptions of open access (OA) | Conclusions and recommendations to further increase take-up of OA books  

London, 05 May 2019

Springer Nature issues commentary on the revised Plan S guidance. 

Doha, 27 May 2019

Springer Nature and Qatar National Library have announced a three-year agreement that combines reading access and open access (OA) publishing in a single arrangement.

London | Tokyo, 23 May 2019

A whitepaper “Challenges and Opportunities for Data Sharing in Japan” published by Springer Nature reports a survey of researchers in Japan about data sharing and management.

Heidelberg | Wiesbaden, 14 May 2019

New media format Espresso Courses to provide a fast, efficient and compact learning experience | Programme to start with ten e-learning courses

London, 8 May 2019

Springer Nature sets out a new approach to research publishing with the goal of increasing the demand from authors to immediately publish their research open access (OA) and growing the supply of journals able to publish OA.

London, 26 April 2019

Jisc and academic publisher Springer Nature have agreed a further ‘read and publish’ agreement that meets the aims of Plan S and offers researchers a funder compliant route to publishing in hybrid journals.

London, 16 April 2019

The SharedIt service, enabling authors to share links to their work even if published in subscription journals, has seen a major increase in its use from 2017.

Heidelberg | London | New York, 11 April 2019 

Newly available patent information supports researchers in their strategic decision-making in drug discovery

London | New York | Heidelberg, 9 April 2019

Three two-day workshops led by the Nature Research Academies will provide Cancer Research UK-funded researchers with training on the principles and practices of research data sharing

London, 3 April 2019

After a successful pilot, Springer Nature has taken the early decision to roll out In Review, its new author submission service, across the BMC series journals.

London | New York, 2 April 2019

A white paper released today draws on surveys of over 11,000 researchers to make concrete recommendations that ensure good data practice

London | Heidelberg, 02 April 2019

Innovative book prototype provides a compelling machine-generated overview about the latest research on lithium-ion batteries, automatically compiled by an algorithm developed in collaboration with the Applied Computational Linguistics lab of Goethe University Frankfurt/Main (Germany)

London, 28 March 2019

The report sets out the steps Springer Nature is taking to manage its own environmental and social impacts.

London | New York | Tokyo, 20 March 2019

The Nature Index 2019 Japan supplement shows that global research performance in Japan continues to fall, but the number of international research partnerships is increasing

London, 15 March 2019

InfoChem has built up a set of high-quality chemical data-management and synthesis prediction software and tools.

London | Heidelberg, 11 March 2019
J.B. Metzler, part of the Springer Nature publishing group, will publish the open access book series on the DFG priority programme Translation Cultures of the Early Modern Period. 

London | New York, 7 March 2019

Awards organized by Nature Research and The Estée Lauder Companies support the achievements of women in science and initiatives promoting STEM* subjects to girls and young women

London | Berlin, 1 March 2019

ResearchGate and Springer Nature are partnering to pioneer innovative access models for scientific content in the rapidly evolving research ecosystem.

London | New York | Heidelberg, 26 February 2019 

New patents module allows academic and corporate nanotechnology researchers to integrate patent searches and patentability assessment into their everyday work

London, 13 February 2019

Authors publishing in open access journal npj Breast Cancer to receive support from dedicated Research Data Editor

London, 11 February 2019

Springer Nature is strongly supportive of Plan S’s goal to accelerate the adoption of Open Access (OA). Today it calls on cOAlition S participants to put evidencing and promoting the benefits of OA at the heart of their strategy

London, 4 February 2019

Nature Food, Nature Cancer and Nature Reviews Earth and Environment will join the Nature Research portfolio of journals from January 2020

New York | London | Heidelberg, 31 January 2019

Librarians to benefit from streamlined process to automatically upload their licensed SpringerLink content to OCLC, Ex Libris’ SFX and Alma

London, 17 January 2019

Springer Nature is the first academic research publisher to join a growing group of employers signing the pledge to tackle mental health stigma and discrimination.

Heidelberg | London, 10 January 2019

The new ontology portal is the largest taxonomy of research topics in computer science available to date.

New York, 09 January 2019

Four U.S. scientists have been honored by Nature, the leading, international weekly journal of science, for their mentorship of young scientists.

London, 21 December 2018

2019 will mark the 150th anniversary of the international science journal Nature.  

London, 21 December 2018

Springer Nature and the Hungarian Academic Consortium (EISZ) announced today an agreement that combines reading access and open access (OA) publishing in one single framework.

London, 18 December 2018

BMC, the first publisher to openly post named peer reviewer reports alongside articles, is announcing the launch of a formal portable peer review policy on BMC Biology. The policy aims to speed up the peer review process and decrease waste in publishing. 

London, 14 December 2018

Springer Nature and NanoSMAT have launched an award to recognize early career women scientists working in materials and nansocience.  The NanoSMAT Woman in Science Award, sponsored by Springer Nature, recognizes exemplary women working in the field of materials and nanotechnology science.  

London, 13 December 2018

The Nature Index 2018 supplement on China reveals that China’s contribution to the Nature Index rose by 75% between 2012 and 2017. 

London, 12 December 2018

The burden on the peer review community is increasing as the volume of published research articles grows. To help address this, Springer Nature and Publons, part of Clarivate Analytics, have announced a partnership to improve the peer review process and enable peer reviewers to receive recognition for their contribution.

London, 04 December 2018

Springer Nature and Project DEAL of the Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany have made considerable progress in their negotiations on a groundbreaking model for publishing and reading scientific literature.

Heidelberg | Milan, 3 December 2018 

In 2018 the Julius Springer Charitable Fund donated 25,000 euro to two charitable organizations in Milan

Heidelberg | Dordrecht, 22 November 2018

Springer Nature’s new broad-based interdisciplinary journal publishes its first articles

London, 15 November 2018

Two courageous scientists, former naturopath Britt Hermes and coral reef expert Terry Hughes, awarded the 2018 John Maddox Prize for Standing up for Science

New York | Heidelberg, 7 November 2018

Content in new highly inclusive, broad appeal journal is now available 

London, 5 November 2018

Nature Research, part of Springer Nature, in partnership with Tencent has established the Nature Research Awards for Driving Global Impact, as part of a joint commitment between the two companies to harness technological progress and to support early career scientists.

London, 01 November 2018

The Nature Index 2018 Science Cities supplement published in Nature today includes the first Nature Index global science city ranking.

London, 30 October 2018

Mirjana Pović and the Association of Hungarian Women in Science win the first ever Nature Research Award for Inspiring Science and Innovating Science, respectively

Heidelberg | London, 9 October 2018

Springer Nature is the proud publisher of research by winners of all Nobel Prizes 

Heidelberg | London, 12 September 2018

New and emerging research areas such as ambient intelligence, big data and human-machine collaboration will be a major focus of the new collection

Heidelberg | Moscow, 5 September 2018

A new landmark agreement ensures scientists at all academic and governmental scientific organizations in Russia have access to Springer Nature publications

Springer Nature’s open access books have achieved the milestone of more than 30 million chapter downloads since 2013. 

London, 04 September 2018

The University of Cambridge has joined other institutions around the world in providing its students and researchers with access to SpringerMaterials, a research solution published by Springer Nature for identifying materials and their corresponding properties.

London, 29 August 2018

We are delighted to be partnering with other publishers in promoting transparency in the peer review process by signing ASAPbio’s open letter. As a leading publisher in open research, Springer Nature has long championed the move to greater transparency in peer review in particular through the BMC portfolio.

London, 23 August 2018

45 Nature Research journals to mandate ORCID iDs for all corresponding authors.

London, 21 August 2018

Springer Nature to collaborate with Watson Health to expand and enhance the integration of valuable genomics research content from Springer Nature to Watson’s ecosystem.

Newly created role brings together wide range of services

London, 8 August 2018

Following four years at Wolters Kluwer as VP Sales EMEA, Andy Douglas is rejoining Springer Nature as VP Commercial for Nature Research, the brand which includes Nature, the leading international weekly journal of science. 

London, 30 July 2018

As one of the largest publishers of academic research, Springer Nature has developed a new position of Research Integrity Director to ensure the growing volume of scientific content being published continues to be rigorously assessed

London | Tokyo, 25 July 2018

A growing body of evidence has emerged in the last decade supporting the major role the human microbiota plays in health and disease. To encourage the development of this promising field, Nature Research and Yakult have launched a new, multi-year competitive grant programme for research into the human microbiota.

London, 23 July 2018

Springer Nature welcomes the recent investigation undertaken by journalists from NDR, WDR and Süddeutsche Zeitung about the publication of scientific results in pseudo-journals.