Bookmetrix Makes an Impact on 2016

By: Martijn Roelandse, Head of Publishing Innovation With the year-end in sight, it’s time to draw up the scores for Bookmetrix. It has been an energizing year with many new features and developments. Probably the most popular one is the Print book report, an easy way to print a summary of the reach and impact of your books. And boy was it in demand; we had 16,000 book report requests in the first month alone! Meanwhile we are adding more data to the platform so we can better service you in 2017. For example, book and conference series information, country and institution information, and … Read more…

Making research more accessible with Figshare

By: Iain Hrynaszkiewicz We want to enable all of our authors and editors to publish the best research and promote wider access to research data, and other materials that support publications. To help achieve this we have introduced enhanced display and discovery of supplementary materials (additional files) in BioMed Central and SpringerOpen journals, in partnership with Figshare. We are now depositing additional files from more than 300 BioMed Central and SpringerOpen journals in Figshare. This new service to authors and readers will: Improve the online display of articles Improve readership of and engagement with published articles Increase the discoverability of … Read more…

Amazon Answers for Book Authors

When you’ve come to the end of the publication process, and it’s time to see your book sold to colleagues, students, and researchers we know there are many questions about how we get your book to Amazon. We asked the Product & Metadata Management team to explain the processes that brings your book from our internal databases to the worldwide used website. What books are on the Amazon websites? All Springer and Palgrave books are sent to Amazon worldwide through what we call a data feed. The only exception is our MyCopy titles. What is a “data feed” and how … Read more…

New and Improved SpringerLink Article Pages

By: Stephen Cornelius, Senior Product Manager; IT Development Authors familiar with SpringerLink may have noticed a significant change over the course of this year. All of our journal article pages are now running on a completely new design, which we feel matches the best contemporary standards for the display of scholarly content. Here are a few important things to know about the new article pages. We took an evolutionary approach When we began redesigning the article page we didn’t go away and produce a high-fidelity Photoshop mock-up of what it would look like. We began with a very skeletal outline … Read more…

An SEO Primer For Book Authors

You may have heard the term Search Engine Optimization (often referred to as SEO), and figured it’s just something for marketing folk and web writers, but did you know it’s important for book authors too? For starters, SEO is what connects people searching online to the content they’re looking for. When you write a book about, for instance, the economic effects of air pollution you want to make sure that you capture the next economist or environmentalist searching the web for the topics your book covers. You want your book to display at the top of their search results so … Read more…

11 Questions to Ask Yourself as You Write Your Manuscript

After you have conducted your research, beginning the process of turning your study into a manuscript for publication can seem overwhelming. To help you get started, we’ve compiled 11 questions you should ask yourself as you write your paper. How will I structure my manuscript? Do most of the journals in your field follow the IMRaD structure? (Introduction -> Materials and Methods -> Results -> Discussions and Conclusions.) Even if the journal you publish in doesn’t follow this exact format, many follow a structure that is similar. Make sure each section of your manuscript helps to tell the story of your … Read more…