In Review extended across Springer Nature titles
Research Square’s In Review, developed in partnership with Springer Nature, reaches milestone integration across publishers’ portfolio, now available on over 500 journals
London | New York | Heidelberg, 1 March 2022
In Review, the innovative service which integrates early sharing and increased transparency in peer review with the journal submission and peer review process, is now available on over 500 Springer Nature journals, including the Nature and BMC portfolios, extending across disciplines such as physics, engineering, plant and animal sciences.
As with the other In Review-enabled Springer Nature journals, authors submitting to one of these integrated titles, will be given the opportunity to opt in or opt out to the service. From today authors submitting to these titles will be able to utilise In Review to realise the benefits of early sharing, enabling them to easily cite and share their work while it is still under review, as well as benefit from transparency into the peer review progress with real time updates on a private dashboard. If the paper is rejected after peer review, all information about imprint and peer review status will be removed with the preprint continuing to be available on the platform.
Eugenie Regan, Springer Nature’s Vice President, Research Solutions commented:
“Springer Nature is a strong supporter of earlier sharing and actively worked with Research Square to launch In Review back in 2018. Preprints are an increasingly important tool, with the ecosystem of research communication, further enabling the sharing, discussion and growth of open research. We continue to work with our research community to provide them with the tools and services they want to better support the advancement and discovery of knowledge. In Review is a key example of that commitment, and to now have 500 Springer Nature journals operating on the platform, enabling an increasing number of authors to benefit from this integrated service, is a fantastic milestone to reach.”
The latest journal integrations are a clear indication of Springer Nature’s commitment to early sharing and discovery. The service will continue to be expanded across the publishers’ portfolio, with an estimated 400+ journals due to be added through 2022, with the aim that over half of the publisher portfolio will be able to benefit from the integrated services by year end.
“As new journals are added to our expanding collection, the number of disciplines represented across those journals will also expand,” said Amye Kenall, Vice President of Product and Publishing at Research Square Company. “We want to help accelerate the uptake of preprints. By offering an easier way to preprint to authors across more disciplines, we can create that sea change that is needed in sharing research early in order to drive the pace of discovery in all disciplines.”
Authors submitting to In Review can also take advantage of the latest features and improvements to the service, including automatic version of record (VOR) linking for articles as they are published in peer-reviewed journals, in-browser PDF viewing of preprints, and unified search functionality.
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In Review, was developed in partnership with Springer Nature by Research Square, of which Springer Nature is an investor, is currently available to Springer Nature authors submitting to 530 of its journals.
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Sam Sule | Communications | Springer Nature
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