Authors

Springer Author Snapshot

Who are our Springer authors? We took a closer look at the data in 2016 to pull together an overview of what it means to be a Springer author. What we found spans 351,000 journal articles and 12,000 books. Our authors bring research from over 21 disciplines to the scientific community. See more below in our 2016 Author Snapshot infographic. View and print the PDF Interested in learning more about being a Springer author? Visit our author page to learn more about the benefits and services we provide.

Service Spotlight: The Transfer Desk

This month’s spotlight is on our Transfer Desk Service. One journal’s rejection may be another’s discovery. Find out how the service works and benefits both authors and editors. As an author when a paper you’ve spent time and effort researching and writing gets rejected from a journal, it can be hard not to take it to heart. As an editor it can be discouraging to have to reject a great paper that might be a better fit for another journal that is just too interdisciplinary or a poor fit for the scope of your journal. At Springer we want to ensure … Read more…

Behind the Scenes at Springer Nature: Editorial

What does it take to get your journal article from submission to publication? How does your book go from a manuscript to a title available at your university library? When your journal partners with Springer Nature for distribution, what steps are taking place to ensure all goes smoothly? We’re answering these questions and more in our new series “Behind the Scenes at Springer Nature.” Learn about the work being done across the company by our dedicated employees from around the world. Today we’re chatting with Nathalie Jacobs  from our Springer editorial team. What is your position at Springer/which office do … Read more…

Blogging 101 for Academics

Have you thought about starting a blog, but are unsure where to start? There are plenty of blog posts from academic bloggers that cover the many benefits of blogging, but if you’ve already made the decision to start – what now? Create your blog. There are many free services available that make it easy and fun to create a blog or website. There are often options to upgrade to paid services, but when you’re just starting out there is plenty of free content to choose from in terms of design and layout. WordPress is a popular option – and what we … Read more…

Service Spotlight: Recommended

This month’s service spotlight is on our latest offering for researchers, Recommended. Keeping up with the latest research in your field just got easier than ever before. A closer look at Recommended There are over 4,000 new primary research papers published every day. In a survey of nature.com users from 2015, we learned that regardless of their field of study, most researchers feel that staying up-to-date with the latest research takes a lot of hard work. Despite their best efforts to keep-up by combining journal table of contents alerts, PubMed, Twitter, and suggestions from lab peers, most researchers felt that in a … Read more…

Finding New Ways to Network in Academia: An Excerpt

With content spanning several publishers including Springer, Nature, Palgrave Macmillan, BioMed Central and more, we’re positioned to offer you some of the best content in the research community. Our content includes the type of material that will not only help you with your specific research needs as an academic, but with information that is useful for all researchers regardless of their discipline focus. This week we’re sharing an excerpt from Being “In and Out”: Providing Voice to Early Career Women in Academia edited by Narelle Lemon and Susanne Garvis. In this excerpt, Narelle Lemon discusses the importance of Twitter on her academic … Read more…

Behind the Scenes at Springer Nature: Marketing

What does it take to get your journal article from submission to publication? How does your book go from a manuscript to a title available at your university library? When your journal partners with Springer Nature for distribution, what steps are taking place to ensure all goes smoothly? We’re answering these questions and more in our new series “Behind the Scenes at Springer Nature.” Learn about the work being done across the company by our dedicated employees from around the world. Today we’re chatting with Deidre Hudson Reuss from our Springer marketing team. What is your position at Springer? I’m … Read more…

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…