Springer Nature launches Open data badges pilot
Springer Nature has launched a pilot program in which digital Open data badges are being awarded to articles to incentivize and reward open data sharing practices… Read more »
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What makes a STEM teacher? Developing identities of STEM teachers at emerging STEM schools
What kind of picture of a STEM teacher do you have? El Nagdi and colleagues attempted to answer this question by conducting a study with participants of emerging… Read more »
Discoverability of open access books: How do we ensure that your research has the widest possible reach?
This blog post will look at how Springer Nature aids the discoverability of its open access books.
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Innovations, new strategies and surprising twists in Neurology: captured in new journal Neurological Research and Practice
To celebrate that the new journal Neurological Research and Practice, the official journal of the German Neurological Society, is… Read more »
BMC ‘Research in progress’ photo competition 2018 now open for submissions
Last year, to celebrate our transition from BioMed Central to BMC, we held our first ever ‘Research in progress’ photo… Read more »
Cardio-Oncology is now the official journal of the International Cardio-Oncology Society (ICOS)
We are delighted to announce that Cardio-Oncology is now the official journal of the International Cardio-Oncology Society (ICOS).… Read more »
Contributing to open science – a computational biologist’s perspective
The landscape of how we communicate science is changing rapidly. Microbiome prizewinner, Dr Jacqueline Meisel attended the week… Read more »
BMC Energy – open for submissions!
On 14th August 2018, the latest BMC Series journal BMC Energy opened for submissions. Editor Dr Harriet Manning discusses the… Read more »
Patient peer review in academic journals: Next steps in the journey
For science to be truly open, research must go beyond simply being available to all, and actively engage the patients and the… Read more »
30 million downloads of open access book chapters
We’re proud to announce that there have now been more than 30 million chapter downloads across our open access (OA) books… Read more »