Getting Published

Learn how to refine your proposal to engage reviewers effectively.

Read about how our authors promoted their books at events and learn what strategies worked well for them. 

Step-by-step guide on where, why, and how to effectively market your book. 

New Editor-in-Chief Prof. Masahito Nosé discusses impact of research, journal’s significant contributions, and future plans.

Find out how to boost your book's online visibility and reach a wider audience.

Advice on the options available to publish your book, including publication formats and choosing the right brand.

Advice from our book authors on engaging a wider audience and avoiding common pitfalls.

Advice on how to transform your writing into a successful book.

Tips and advice to make your proposal stand out

Find out what Nature Reviews authors had to say: Survey results.

In this post, we look at how authors experience the transfer service and how satisfied they are with it.

Learn about DEI in BMC Global and Public Health's Editorial Board.

Tips and advice to help improve your written English in your manuscripts

Learn how to structure your article and write abstracts to achieve high readership and citations.

Learn more about the newly launched journal BMC Global and Public Health; its scope, policies and mission.

Learn how to improve your chances of getting your work published to the journal of your choice by following this simple guide.

Chief Editor Fabio Pulizzi provides a preview of what we can expect from the new journal, Nature Water, and how it will meet the community’s needs.

Learn how these newly launched journals will address the needs of the computational science community

Chief Editor Christine Horejs provides a preview of what we can expect from the new journal and how it will meet the community’s needs.

Chief Editor, Rebecca Cooney, provides a preview of what we can expect from the new journal and how it will meet the community’s needs.

Learn about Springer Nature's new partnership with Cancer Research UK, aiming to improve research and publication practices.

An interview with Dr Elissaios Papyrakis about the book 'COVID-19 and International Development'.

Discover some easy ways to promote your work after publication and increase its discoverability.

Join one research team on their first voyage through the world of preprinting, a trip that logged 20 citations, 5,500 pdf downloads, 168,083 HTML page views, and an Altmetric score of over 3,700—before their manuscript was even published in Nature Immunology.

97% of transferred authors rated the Transfer Desk as “excellent” or “good.” And 76% of them would use the service again.

Hear from authors themselves.

Authors share their perspectives on the importance of books.

Learn about our grant scheme for Early Career Researchers to fit these challenging times.

Learn more about our upcoming event.

Read the interview with our 500,000th ORCID iD author.

Read a Medical Editor’s experience navigating acquisitions in a critical time for her authors.

Research goes on. And the Transfer Desk at Springer Nature is still working hard to help every sound submission that comes into us find a suitable journal to publish it.

A new free tutorial describing how to best pick journals and—how to prepare and format your paper to increase the chances of acceptance.

We’re proud to present our updated free tutorial on Writing in English. 

Read our advice for how you can keep networking despite travel bans by taking advantage of your virtual community, sharing your researcher wider online and more.

Learn how our Editorial teams can help support your work in the midst of cancelled events and campus closures.

Like designing a study or an experiment, writing a research article has a protocol—a formula—that, once you know it, you can easily follow. This formula helps both Editors and readers know where to find the information in your article quickly and efficiently, and following it will help you publish your work more quickly.

Our Palgrave Social Science Editorial Director shares how her team is approaching remote working and how current and potential authors can best stay connected with publishers during this time.

I recently had the chance to sit down with Harriet Manning, a Senior Submissions Editor at the Springer Nature Transfer Desk. In her role at the Transfer Desk, she provides expertise in the physical sciences for the Transfer team. Our conversation is below. And also please see our collection of other blog posts about the Transfer Desk.

See how we help keep research in motion at every stage of your career.

Celebrating the 1-year anniversary of In Review—the first-of-its-kind preprint service that also lets you track the progress of your manuscript through the peer review and editorial processes. 

I recently had the chance to sit down with Stella Georgiadou, a Senior Submissions Editor at the Springer Nature Transfer Desk. In her role at the Transfer Desk, she provides expertise in the humanities and social sciences for the Transfer team.

There’s a reason Springer Nature publishes so many journals, even within disciplines—and that reason is that one size does not fit all. So to best serve authors, we’ve worked to provide the right venues for as many researchers as we possibly can.

See what authors are publishing in countries around the world.

5 things that make Nature Research journals stand out

What can In Review’s Editorial Timeline reveal about quality—and efficiency—in peer review? For Peer Review Week 2019. 

Give your readers clues to guide them through your writing.

Understanding cognitive bias can improve your academic writing.

Get every book we publish into every relevant research library in the world so that every one who needs it can find it—that’s the mission we’ve given ourselves at Springer Nature. Everything we do in our books program revolves around that.

Discover how these these 3 cognitive learning principles can improve your writing.

In looking back on 2,000 submissions on In Review, and looking forward to the future, I sat down with Amye Kenall, Editorial Director Medicine & Life Sciences, who helped lead In Review’s development. 

Since July 2018, the Springer Nature Transfer Desk has helped more than 12,000 authors find suitable journals for their work, saving them time and effort in helping get their results out to the world

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An interview with Prof. Yoshinori Asakawa about his journey in editing a reference title book.

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Learn about the affordable option for your readers

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To help you get started, we’ve compiled 11 questions you should ask yourself as you write your paper.

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