Service Spotlight: In Review

In Review is a new way to open up the submissions and peer review process. Learn more about this new service, which will allow you more insight than ever before into your manuscript’s editorial progress. Amye Kenall, Global Head of Life Sciences, Open Research at Springer Nature shares more. What exactly is In Review? Powered by Research Square, In Review offers authors a personal dashboard to easily track the status of their manuscript, and the opportunity to share it with the wider community earlier in the submission and peer review process. Who can utilize In Review? In the first instance, … Read more…

Service Spotlight: Article Level Metrics

Article-level metrics provide an alternative option to the well-known impact factor when measuring the impact of a journal’s research. Each journal article’s SpringerLink page includes Altmetrics data that explores how the article is being cited, used and discussed on the social web. An overview: Article-level metrics allow authors and editors the ability to see a wide range of metrics that cover article coverage across social media and the internet. How are these metrics calculated? We partner with Altmetrics, who track multiple sources to help better monitor and report the attention research receives. What sources are metrics collected from? When available, … Read more…

Service Spotlight: The Springer Nature Author Affiliate Program

An overview Earn commission on your Springer Nature publications through your own website, blog, or social network! All you need to do is sign-up for the Springer Nature Author Affiliate Program. If accepted, you simply post a unique tracking link. Whenever someone clicks on it and then purchases your book, you earn a cash commission. What does it mean exactly to be an affiliate? An affiliate is essentially an advertising partner for a business. In this case the tracking link you receive serves as the advertisement that brings customers to our website to purchase your book. Where does the link get … Read more…

Service Spotlight: MySpringer/MyPalgrave

We’re starting the year with a service spotlight on one of our key services for authors, MySpringer and MyPalgrave. An Overview A MySpringer/MyPalgrave account offers direct access to your author account. From there you can download your free personal eBook copy, access your 40% author discount, track your publications, and find various other services periodically. Using the MyPublication tool, your account will update on where your books and/or journal articles are in the publication process. Update your e-mail preferences so that you are informed of the latest status changes, as well as the most recent journal issue, book, or series … Read more…

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…

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…

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…