2015 - All Press Releases

Shanghai, 16 December

Traditional strongholds of US and Japan experience a notable drop in their research output.

London, 10 December 2015

Full-text articles on nature.com will continue to be made widely available to read and share as content sharing initiative becomes permanent.

Shanghai, 8 December

The international forum “From Research to Innovation and Entrepreneurship” focused on how research and science can drive innovation, fuel entrepreneurship, and ultimately build a sustainable knowledge economy in China.

Shanghai, 8 December 2015

Five prominent Chinese scientists receive the 2015 Nature Award for Mentoring in Science at the 2015 International Forum: From Research to Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

London, 7 December 2015

Deal includes Five year national access agreement for Springer Nature content and services and the full sponsorship of an Arabic online version of Scientific American.

Heidelberg | New York, 3 December 2015

London, 3 December 2015

Report shows a surge in high-quality scientific publication between 2012 and 2014

Heidelberg | Boston, 1 December 2015

University of Virginia scientists receive award for their outstanding paper on protective coatings for ceramics

Shanghai, 25 November 2015

Recommends that Chinese research must continue to transform and reform to achieve the country’s goal of driving innovation-led development

London | Galveston TX, 19 November 2015

From preventable diseases such as measles and mumps, to Ebola and HIV, new clinical trials and vaccine debate, a new journal, npj Vaccines, will be dedicated to highlighting the most important scientific advances in vaccine research and development.

Heidelberg | New York, 18 November 2015

Telecommunications and Information Technology will offer books which bridge the gap between academia and industry

Heidelberg | New York, 11 November 2015

Drug database AdisInsight provides reliable data for researchers, strategists, regulators and healthcare providers

11 November 2015

The Nature Index 2015 Collaborations report, published as a supplement to Nature on 12 November, provides more evidence of the emergence of a 'Fourth Age' of scientific discovery where high-impact research is conducted through international
collaboration and demonstrates the benefits of participation in international networks for emergent research nations.

London, 4 November 2015

From January 2016, Marine Biodiversity Records, a journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, will be published by BioMed Central. 

Heidelberg | New York, 2 November 2015

ORCID used in book workflow to help solve author name ambiguity problems in research and scholarly communications

Heidelberg | New York, 27 October 2015

Research on the Intelligent City Construction and Promotion Strategies is the first book series on this emerging topic

Heidelberg | New York, 27 October 2015

New publishing collaboration includes books, journals and digital databases

Heidelberg | New York, 26 October 2015

Service identifies important phrases used in a scientific article and provides related articles containing similar concepts

Heidelberg | New York, 23 October 2015

Book series publishes the “best of the best” PhD theses, documenting the valuable contributions made by today’s young scientists

Heidelberg | New York, 22 October 2015

New agreement seeks to reduce costs and administration of meeting OA mandate requirements for researchers and institutions in the UK

Heidelberg | New York, 21 October 2015

Springer Compact allows open access publishing without administrative obstacles or cost barriers

London, 20 October 2015

Nature Publishing Group publishes 63% of research articles via open access models; 96% of authors choose CC BY 

London | Shanghai, 19 October 2015

Nature Publishing Group (NPG), part of Springer Nature, has arrived at a five-year Memorandum of Understanding for Strategic Cooperation Framework Agreement (“MOU”) with the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality

19 October 2015

Nature Publishing Group (NPG), part of Springer Nature, and Tongji University will partner to publish a new open access journal npj Pollution Control. Both partners today signed an ...

London | Heidelberg, 15 October 2015 Palgrave Macmillan and Springer have decided to align their eBook collections, collating all Palgrave Connect eBooks on SpringerLink and adding thousands more to ...

London | Heidelberg, 13 October 2015

Indonesian academic publishers set to announce co-publishing agreements with Springer Nature at Frankfurt Book Fair 2015

London | Heidelberg, 9 October 2015. 

Global research, educational and professional publisher exhibits at Frankfurt Book Fair for the first time following its formation in May 2015

Heidelberg, 16 September 2015

Austrian Consortium and Austrian Science Fund (FWF) sign Springer Compact deal

London, 13 August 2015 A survey of 22,000 academic researchers by Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and Palgrave Macmillan has found that a decreasing number of authors are concerned about perceptions of ...

London | Heidelberg, 4 August 2015

Media company enriches imprint Bohn Stafleu van Loghum with additional strong brands

Heidelberg | Stuttgart, 31 July 2015

Springer Nature and the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group have agreed that, effective immediately, the Stuttgart-based publishing house J.B. Metzler will become part ....

London | 30 July 2015

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and Zapnito today announced a collaborative partnership to build online expert communities for global research.

London | Heidelberg, 8 July 2015

Journals on mathematics education and industrial mathematics join SpringerOpen

07 July 2015

Nature Publishing Group and Fudan University, Shanghai, will partner to publish npj Molecular Phenomics, a new open access
journal.

London | Heidelberg, 2 July 2015

AdisInsight provides window into current evidence on research into new drug treatments

New York | Heidelberg, 25 June 2015

Insights from librarians on the benefits and usage of an archive product like SBA

New York | Heidelberg, 24 June 2015

Publications in astrophysics and relativity will enhance Springer’s journals portfolio

24 June 2015

Building on its established leadership in multidisciplinary publishing, Nature Publishing Group’s (NPG) open access and
interdisciplinary journal publishing programs are flourishing.

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.

London, 17 June 2015

Installation commissioned to celebrate the completion of Macmillan's new state-of-the-art London Campus in the thriving regeneration area of Kings Cross.

17 June 2015

China is stepping up its contribution to global high-quality research output year-on-year at the expense of the United States,
Germany and the United Kingdom.

London, 21 May 2015

Three new titles will join the Nature family of journals in January 2016: Nature Energy, Nature Microbiology and Nature Reviews Materials.

20 May 2015

Nature Publishing Group has partnered with Monash University, Australia to publish npj Regenerative Medicine, a new open
access research journal that will explore the potential of organisms to restore and regenerate damaged cells, tissues and organs.

New York | Heidelberg, 13 May 2015 Naturejobs, a global career resource for scientists, and Jobvector, Germany’s Science career center, announce the inaugural Naturejobs Career Expo Düsseldorf.

11 May 2015

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and the International Spinal Cord Society (ISCOS) today announce a new quarterly, online-only
journal, Spinal Cord Series and Cases.

Berlin and London, 6 May 2015

New company combines Springer Science+Business Media and majority of Macmillan Science and Education

20 January 2015

High quality, multidisciplinary journal across the humanities and social sciences launches today.

New York | Heidelberg, 30 April 2015

New website features the real life stories of researchers and discussions on storytelling in communications

23 April 2015

Today marks the launch of Nature Reviews Disease Primers (NRDP), an online-only, peer-reviewed journal that
introduces a new format to the NPG portfolio.

Shanghai | London, 25 March 2015

Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SICCAS) today signed an official agreement with Nature Publishing Group to launch the first Nature Partner Journal in China, npj Computational Materials.

25 March 2015

The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region has maintained its world-leading reputation for high-quality scientific research, according to the
Nature Index APAC supplement 2015, published today as a supplement of Nature.

Grenoble | Heidelberg | New York, 23 March 2015

The new, open source software is publically available for free to the scientific and publishing communities

11 March 2015

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and the British Dental Association (BDA) are pleased to announce the launch of BDJ Open, a
new open access journal which will publish dental and oral health research from all disciplines.

New York | Heidelberg, 23 February 2015

New agreement will help Springer deliver XML content for corporate biomedical text mining

Authors will be able to opt for double-blind peer review across Nature and the Nature Research Journals*. Nature
Communications, Nature Publishing Group’s flagship open access journal, will be joining the trial later in 2015.

New York, 18 February 2015

Scientific American and Google are introducing the Scientific American Innovator Award as part of the 2015 Google Science Fair.

New York | Heidelberg, 17 February 2015

Young chemist receives prize for her outstanding research on zoom-time-of-flight mass spectrometry

New York | Heidelberg , 16 February 2015

Springer expands its co-publication partnership with Science China Press

New York | Heidelberg , 11 February 2015

Registered MOOC students benefit from special rates for Springer content | MOOC course in robotics available at Queensland University of Technology

29 January 2015

Nature Publishing Group has partnered with The University of Queensland (UQ) to publish npj Science of Learning, a new open
access research journal that will explore the neurobiology of learning in experimental and educational environments.

London, 26 January 2015

All 18 open access journals owned by Nature Publishing Group (NPG), and two society titles published by NPG, will use the Creative Commons Attribution license CC BY 4.0 as default from today.