Editors

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…

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…

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…

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…

Reddit 101 for Scientists

When it comes to utilizing social media in the science community, you might not automatically think about including Reddit into your activities. While Reddit threads may have a reputation for being controversial, there is another side to Reddit that is both important and useful to the scientific world. What exactly is Reddit? You can think of Reddit as one giant virtual conference for every discipline and subject you could imagine where people break off into smaller groups -called subreddits- to talk about topics interesting to them. When you first enter Reddit it looks like one large message board. When you register … Read more…