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Alternative conditions needed in order for cOAlition S’s proposal for Transformative Journals to succeed

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.

Digital Science partners with Springer Nature on Nature Index

London | Sydney, 12 December 2019 

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

Springer Nature and the Association of Universities in the Netherlands partner to explore how open research can accelerate progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals

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

Springer Nature commended for sustainability efforts at NYC office

New York, 5 December 2019

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

New Springer Nature Group CEO Vrancken Peeters completes Executive Team

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. 

SPi Global signs agreement to acquire SPS from Springer Nature Group

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.

Nature Research and Merck establish The Spinoff Prize to celebrate early stage university spinoff companies

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

Despite political turmoil, international collaboration continues to flourish

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

Nature PhD survey puts spotlight on mental health, harassment and student debt

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

Springer Nature first publisher to implement SeamlessAccess.org service

London | New York, 12 November 2019 

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

Personal tale of hearing loss wins Nature’s 150th anniversary young writers’ prize

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.”

Researcher behind forward-thinking work to foster understanding of vision wins inaugural Nature Research Awards for Driving Global Impact

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.

Young universities in Asia are strongly represented in rankings for high-quality research output

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

New head of magazines announced at Springer Nature

London | New York | Heidelberg, 21 October 2019

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

Springer Nature celebrates publications by 2019 Nobel Prize laureates

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

Winners of 2019 Nature Research Awards for Inspiring and Innovating Science announced

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

Two thirds of academics think that training on collaboration will benefit their career

London | New York | Berlin, 1 October 2019

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

Springer Nature Announces CEO Succession: Frank Vrancken Peeters appointed Chief Executive Officer. Daniel Ropers to step down.

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.

Springer Nature and the Austrian Academic Library Consortium renew open access contract for another three years

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.

Springer Nature initiates China New Development Awards, highlighting Chinese scholars’ contributions to the world’s sustainable development

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. 

Projekt DEAL and Springer Nature reach understanding on world's largest transformative open access agreement

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.

inScience Communications collaborates with Big Brand Ideas to drive effective and measurable engagement

London, 31 July 2019 

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

Springer Nature and Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) expand collaboration to cover chemistry, earth sciences, public health and more

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

Springer Nature publishes study for CERN’s next generation circular collider

London, 25th July 2019

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

Springer Nature and ResearchGate extend content sharing pilot following positive feedback

London | Berlin, 11 July 2019

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

Springer Nature agrees new transformative deal with Norway

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.

Springer Nature accelerates its transformative journey with the signing of landmark pure OA deal

London, 27 June 2019

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

Springer Nature launches new video portfolio

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 

Size is not everything according to latest Nature Index annual tables

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 

The future of scholarly books is open (access)

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  

Springer Nature comment on revised Plan S guidance

London, 05 May 2019

Springer Nature issues commentary on the revised Plan S guidance. 

Springer Nature announces transformational agreement with Qatar National Library

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.

Moving towards open science needs extensive collaboration and best practice data sharing in Japan

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.

iversity introduces microlearning

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

Springer Nature seeks views on new approach aimed at accelerating the transition to open access

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.

Jisc and Springer Nature renew transformational deal securing Open Access for UK higher education

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.

Content sharing at Springer Nature goes from strength to strength

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.

Springer Nature and DrugPatentWatch partner to provide patent information for drug database

Heidelberg | London | New York, 11 April 2019 

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

Springer Nature partners with Cancer Research UK to improve scientists’ skills in research data management

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

With over 50% take-up Springer Nature’s new author service rolled out early after response exceeds expectations

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.

Springer Nature proposes five essential factors to accelerate data sharing

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

Springer Nature publishes its first machine-generated book

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)

Springer Nature announces 18% fall in net carbon emissions, as it publishes its 2018 Responsible Business Report

London, 28 March 2019

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

Growing international collaboration not yet enough to halt decline in Japan’s research output

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

Springer Nature announces completion of divestment of InfoChem GmbH to DeepMatter Group Plc.

London, 15 March 2019

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

J.B. Metzler publishes new open access book series on the DFG Priority Programme “Translation Cultures of the Early Modern Period”

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. 

Applications now open for Inspiring and Innovating Science Awards 2019

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

ResearchGate and Springer Nature embark on pilot to deliver seamless discovery and an enhanced reading experience

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.

Springer Nature expands its nanotechnology research solution with the inclusion of over 22 million patents

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

Springer Nature partners with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation to improve data sharing

London, 13 February 2019

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

Springer Nature: Plan S needs to focus on helping all authors and funders to better understand the benefits of OA

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

Three new Nature Research journals address some of humanity’s greatest challenges

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

Springer Nature advances its library services by offering KBART Automated Holdings Feeds for discovery services

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

Springer Nature signs England's Time to Change mental health pledge and commits to supporting staff wellbeing

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.

Springer Nature and The Open University launch a unique Computer Science Ontology (CSO)

Heidelberg | London, 10 January 2019

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

Nature honors four southern U.S. scientists for achievements in mentoring

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.

Springer Nature signs England's Time to Change mental health pledge and commits to supporting the mental wellbeing of staff

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.