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Archives: Springer Nature

Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Steven Inchcoombe

Robert Harington talks to Steven Inchcoombe, Chief Publishing Officer for Springer Nature in this new series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jan 30, 2023
  • 3 Comments

How One Society Is Supporting Peer Review Excellence in their Community: An Interview with Laura Feetham of IOP Publishing

In today’s post, Alice Meadows talks to Laura Feetham of IOP Publishing about their work to improve peer review quality in the physical sciences through their ongoing peer review excellence program.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • May 11, 2021
  • 1 Comment

Preprints and Author Services: An Interview with Rachel Burley and Eugenie Regan

Springer Nature recently invested further in Research Square Company to become majority owner of this preprint and author services platform. Today, an interview with Rachel Burley and Eugenie Regan about what to expect.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Oct 8, 2020
  • 12 Comments

Syndication Success: A Report from the Springer Nature and ResearchGate Pilot

Results of this partnership signal we should expect future expansion of content syndication.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Sep 9, 2020
  • 26 Comments

Publishers Invest in Preprints

Major scholarly publishers have made substantial investments in preprints in recent years, integrating preprint deposit into manuscript submission workflows.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld, Oya Y. Rieger
  • May 27, 2020
  • 25 Comments

To Bundle or Not to Bundle? That Is the Question

Some libraries are seeking transformative agreements, others are unbundling the Big Deal. Can major publishers reestablish value without a major revenue sacrifice?

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Apr 13, 2020
  • 7 Comments

So What’s the DEAL?: An Interview with Springer Nature’s Dagmar Laging

An interview with Springer Nature’s Dagmar Laging about the emerging transformative open access agreement with Germany’s Projekt DEAL.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Sep 26, 2019
  • 6 Comments

Will Libraries Help Publishers Prop Up the Value of the Big Deal?

The value of the big deal has declined. Will libraries drive down its price — or help publishers prop up its value?

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Sep 3, 2019
  • 1 Comment

Diverting Leakage to the Library Subscription Channel

Springer Nature is leading in the effort to preserve library subscriptions by syndicating its content and, in doing so, would establish ResearchGate as perhaps the foremost service for the distribution of scholarly content. Analysis by @lisalibrarian and @rschon.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Jul 16, 2019
  • 15 Comments

Internal Contradictions with Open Access Books

Consolidation and concentration are inherent properties of media in a networked environment.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Jun 4, 2019
  • 18 Comments

If At First You Don’t Succeed … Make Another Response to Plan S?

cOAlition S rebuffed recommendations for continuing hybrid and supporting sister journals. Springer Nature tries again with concept of the “Transformative Publisher.” Thoughts?

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • May 8, 2019
  • 13 Comments

Guest Post — From Diversity to Inclusion and Equity: Moving Beyond Good Intentions

We are celebrating International Women’s Day with guest Chef Susan Spilka of the Workplace Equity Project, who recently moderated a well-attended SSP webinar on moving from diversity to inclusion and equity, on which her post is based.

  • By Susan Spilka
  • Mar 8, 2019
  • 2 Comments

Springer Nature Syndicates Content to ResearchGate

A pilot project representing the first significant experiment with the syndication of publisher content to a content supercontinent.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Mar 1, 2019
  • 58 Comments

Mixed Realities, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality in Scholarly Publishing: An Interview with Markus Kaindl and Martijn Roelandse

Augmented reality is increasingly being used in scholarly publishing — in expected and unexpected ways. Learn how Springer Nature has been experimenting with it in this interview with their Senior Manager of Semantic Data, Markus Kaindl, and Head of Innovation, Martijn Roelandse.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jan 17, 2019
  • 12 Comments

Will Publishers Syndicate Their Content?

Last week’s STM news raises questions about whether scholarly publishers are prepared to radically improve content distribution. Is content syndication the end game?

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Oct 15, 2018
  • 36 Comments
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