New global analysis of over 12 million documents reveals how academic research shapes sustainable development policy
« The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have become a powerful lens through which we understand and address society’s most urgent challenges and they now make up 24% of all published research. The…
« The research landscape is undergoing a profound and rapid transformation. As we champion trust and integrity, open access and open science, and greater inclusivity and equity, the ways in which research is conducted and shared are evolving. Researchers are increasingly encouraged to engage with diverse audiences, share their research data,…
« Navigating Risk in Vendor Data Privacy Practices: An Analysis of Springer Nature’s SpringerLink documents a variety of practices that undermine library privacy standards. SpringerLink provides a case study in the encroachment of the broader surveillance-based data brokering economy into academic systems. (…) »
« Open access to scholarly contents has grown substantially in recent years. This includes the number of books published open access online. However, there is limited study on how usage patterns (via downloads, citations and web visibility) of these books may differ from their closed counterparts. Such information is not only…
« Springer Nature is now offering researchers the opportunity to have their books and manuscripts auto-translated free of charge.
Following a successful pilot, Springer Nature has now deployed DeepL AI to fill a critical gap and seamlessly integrated auto-translation into its book publishing process. This service will be available for…
« cOAlition S welcomes Springer Nature’s commitment to adhere to the Transformative Journal (TJ) framework. This route allows authors to make the Version of Record (VoR) of their article open access on publication. cOAlition S recognizes the added value of an open access VoR, and
« The publisher of Nature has agreed its first deal to allow some researchers to publish in the journal, and in 33 other Nature-branded titles, under open-access (OA) terms.
Research published in Nature and its sister journals is behind a paywall, although the journals have sometimes chosen to make articles OA.…
« In recent years, major publishing houses have increased the attention they have been giving to preprints, as my colleague Oya Rieger and I outlined this spring. Springer Nature’s initiative in this arena is in partnership with the Research Square Company, in which it recently invested further…
« Today, ResearchGate and Springer Nature are jointly announcing the findings of their syndication pilot. In this partnership, as we have previously analyzed, Springer Nature distributes the version of record of articles from several dozen journals to ResearchGate for access. Users with institutional…
« And yet another agreement! While it was celebrated over the ocean as “the largest OA deal ever signed in the US” or a “milestone” for OA, we Europeans are now used to these “groundbreaking” contracts announcements every other week. So much that…
