Springer Nature becomes the largest academic publisher to open up reference lists to advance data discovery and reuse, effective as of today.

Berlin | London | Dordrecht, 5 October 2017 Additional benchmarking and discovery features on the platform will help readers to discover new books and institutions to assess the impact of Springer Nature eBook collections

London, 6 December New data from the Nature Index show that as corporations have scaled back their own in-house research, there has been a surge in collaboration with academic and government research bodies, as they look to share the burden of scientific discovery.

London, 1 November 2017 Springer Nature is joining with the Economic and Social Research Council to explore the role social science research is playing in tackling some of the global grand challenges. At an event to mark the launch of the 15th annual ESRC Festival of Social Science, a high-profile panel of social science experts will look at the important role research plays beyond academia, discussing how research can address issues such as climate change, economics, race, migration, health and interdisciplinarity.

London, 22 March 2017 According to the Nature Index, Japan's scientific output has failed to keep pace with other leading nations over the past decade, risking its position among the world's elite if renewed government efforts fail to reverse a downward trend in its performance.

New York, 18 October 2017 The Nature Index 2017 Science Cities supplement, published today, reveals that New York is poised for a boom in the life sciences.

Berlin, 12 October 2017 Project DEAL of the Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany and the publisher Springer Nature are negotiating a forward-looking model for publishing and reading scientific literature.

London, 27 November 2017  Over 3.25 million articles accessed in SharedIt’s first year Articles have been successfully shared by authors, subscribers and media outlets over 3.25 million times during the first year of SharedIt, Springer Nature’s free content sharing initiative.

London, 30 November 2017 Dr Riko Muranaka has been awarded the international 2017 John Maddox Prize1 for promoting science and evidence on a matter of public interest, despite facing difficulty and hostility in doing so.

London, 7 November 2017 A report from Springer Nature launched today shows there is a tangible benefit to publishing academic books using immediate, or ‘gold’, open access (OA) models.