Month: January 2017

Have you SharedIt?

We announced our content sharing initiative SharedIt back in October of 2016. After a successful trial period with Nature-branded journals in December 2014, which resulted in an additional 1.3 million article accesses, we rolled out the initiative to our Springer portfolio of journals. In addition to sharing articles that are available on Nature.com, starting in October 2016 subscribers and authors had the opportunity to share articles available on SpringerLink. In a few short months we’ve already seen over 200,000 additional accesses on SpringerLink articles from participating journals. Watch the video below to learn more! If you’re a subscriber or author who has … Read more…

Service Spotlight: MyCopy for Book Authors

We’re starting a new series on The Source that will highlight the various unique benefits that come with being a Springer Nature author. This month the spotlight is on MyCopy, a service offered for our Springer and Palgrave books. A closer look at MyCopy MyCopy is a print-on-demand soft cover edition of an eBook for $24.99 / €24.99. The cover is printed in color, but the interior pages are entirely in black and white. MyCopy availability All English-language eBooks that have a copyright year of 2005 and later, and are less than 1200 pages long are offered as a MyCopy. This includes … Read more…

A Look Back at 2016 on The Source

Thanks for being a reader of The Source! As we head into 2017, we wanted to wrap up 2016 by highlighting some of the best moments from the blog in the last year. The Source began in July 2015, and since then we’re continuously working on bringing you the most relevant and interesting information from Springer Nature and the world of research. As we look at the year ahead we hope to provide you with even more content to keep you informed, entertained, and intrigued. We posted 29 blog posts in 2016, with an average of 2 posts per month. We had over 27,000 … Read more…