2018 - All Press Releases

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.

London, 12 July 2018

Wellcome is partnering with Springer Nature on a pilot to support researchers to make their research datasets available to the wider research community.

London, 9 July 2018

Two new highly inclusive, broad appeal journals being launched to serve research community.

London, 2 July 2018

A report from Springer Nature shows that OA articles published in hybrid journals attract more downloads, citations, and attention compared with non-OA articles in hybrid journals.

Washington, DC, 14 June

Nature Research and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will be convening a new conference designed to guide NASA’s approach to interaction with and control of the Microbiome of the Built Environment (MoBE) of future spacecraft including transports, habitats, landers, rovers and spacesuits.

London, 7 June

The United States is the world's largest contributor to high-quality scientific research papers, followed by China and Germany, according to the Nature Index 2018 Annual Tables released today. These tables track by country and institution the research published in 82 high-quality journals each year.

London  |  Amsterdam, 24 May 2018

Third Launchpad Meetup provides opportunity for startups to pitch ideas to support open data

London, 17 May 2018

A new report outlines how Springer Nature has been able to deliver rapid growth in gold open access (OA) articles in the UK.

London | Berlin | New York, 15 May 2018

Springer Nature’s Change the World, One Article at a Time campaign will bring research on grand societal challenges to the attention of the wider research community, whilst Science and the Sustainable Cities conference connects evidence-based science with policymakers and business leaders with the aim of creating sustainable change.

London, 11 May 2018

Springer Nature has published its 500^th open access (OA) book, marking a major milestone in its book portfolio since the launch of its dedicated OA book publication programme in 2012.

First female editor in its nearly 150 year history

London, 2 May 2018

Following a lengthy selection process, Dr Magdalena Skipper, Editor-in-Chief of Nature Communications, has been appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief of Nature.

London, 25 April 2018

Nature India, the leading publication for research and science news from India, has celebrated its ten year​​​​​​​ anniversary, marking the milestone with a series of events in New Delhi and by publishing a special issue on grand societal challenges that sheds light on solutions to some of India's most pressing socio-economic issues.

Houten, 25 April 2018

Springer Nature today announces the acquisition by its Springer Healthcare business of Medidact, part of Van Zuiden Communications – a medical communications agency targeting the Dutch healthcare market.

London | Berlin, 19 April 2018

In a cooperation agreement announced today, Springer  Nature and ResearchGate, along with Cambridge University Press and Thieme, will work together on the sharing of articles on the scholarly collaboration platform in a way that protects the rights of authors and publishers.

London | Melville, New York, 9 April 2018

Nature Research and The Estée Lauder Companies have launched two global awards today that seek to put a spotlight on both exceptional achievements of female scientists and those working to promote greater inclusiveness.

London, 28 March 2018

First Responsible Business report – Discover More – outlines how Springer Nature supports academic and education communities to advance learning and discovery, and reports on the environmental and social impacts of its global operations.

London, 21 March 2018

A report from Springer Nature published today reveals strong support for data sharing globally, yet identifies a number of common problems amongst researchers when they endeavour to share their data.

London, 21 March 2018

Springer Nature today published its first gender pay gap report covering all of its UK business. On 5 April 2017, the median gender pay gap between men and women working at Springer Nature was 15.12%, against a national median gap of 18.4%.

London, 12 March 2018

Springer Nature and the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) have renewed their agreement to secure open access publishing for Dutch universities up to 2021.

February 12 2018

Macmillan publishers will celebrate their 175th anniversary in 2018. 

Heidelberg | London, 31 January 2018

Librarians to benefit from increased metadata quality and new features, such as the option to download journal metadata and to bookmark their settings to save time on repeated tasks

London, 30 January 2018

New support services to help the research community manage and share data are being rolled out by Springer Nature. Following a successful pilot offering data deposition support to Springer Nature authors, announced in April 2017 and extended to all researchers in January 2018, a wider range of research data services are now being introduced for institutions and funders. 

London, 30th January 2018

Springer Nature and BenchSci, a life science machine learning startup, have announced a new partnership designed to address the challenge millions of biomedical researchers face when searching for biological products for their research in scientific papers.