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How do researchers use social media and scholarly collaboration networks (SCNs)?

Written by: Tina Harseim, Head of Social Media, Springer Nature Gregory Goodey, Research Analyst, Springer Nature Social media is not only a way for authors and publishers to disseminate research findings, it’s also increasingly being used by researchers to discover and read scientific content. To better understand how social media and scholarly collaboration networks (SCNs) are used within academia to support research activity, Springer Nature conducted a survey in February. This was in follow up to a Nature survey carried out in 2014. (The original survey can be found here: Online collaboration: Scientists and the social network) Over 3,000 researchers … Read more…

Researching the News with SharedIt

Interested in learning more about the facts behind the stories you read from the media? Each month we’re pulling some of the major headlines from the news, and pairing them with research articles related to the topic. With the power of SharedIt, you’ll be able to read full journal articles and share them with others! On 4 April a tragic terrorist attack took place in St. Petersburg, Russia inside a metro train. Learn more about the threat of terrorist attacks targeting rail bound traffic in this article from the Journal of Transportation Security: Rail bound traffic—a prime target for contemporary terrorist attacks? The … 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…