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…

Piloting Without a Plane

By: Lucy Frisch You might have heard the term pilot used before in one of our many initiatives here at Springer Nature. For example, SharedIt began as a pilot with our Nature portfolio of journals. Pilots by definition are simply a test. Many times you probably won’t even know a pilot is taking place. An e-mail you receive or a new service you find through your MySpringer profile may seem like a regular addition, but you may just be one of the lucky ones included into a pilot project. We pilot because we are always looking for new ways to take … 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…

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…