Last week we celebrated Open Access Week, an annual, global event which gives the research and academic community the chance to share open access news and knowledge in the aim of making it the new norm in academic publishing. Here we share some of the most exciting Open Access Week activities across Springer Nature.
This week Figshare launched its annual report: The State of Open Data 2017 to coincide with Open Access Week celebrations. In this blog we share a section of the report written by Grace Baynes, Director of Data & New Product Development for Open Research at Springer Nature, on how we can make widespread open data a reality.
Today, BMC publishes its ‘Research in Progress’ report, showcasing our work over the past year and our plans for the future. Here we share the report along with an introduction from our Publishing Director, Rachel Burley.
At the start of 2017 Open Access Week, today we’re delighted to announce that we have reached a significant milestone in advancing discovery through open research. In four European countries, over 70% of Springer Nature’s journal articles are being immediately published (gold) open access. This includes: Over 77% of corresponding authors based in the UK Over… Read more »
How do you make sure the right people are seeing your research? Is it being read as much as you’d like? In this guest blog, Joshua Clark, Marketing Executive at Altmetric shares some useful tips.
Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of celebration helps people learn about the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths, inspiring others and creating new role models. We asked editors at Nature Research to talk about female scientists who’ve made major contributions to their fields. This blog was written by Mark Staniland and cross-posted from Nature’s of schemes and memes blog.
Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of celebration helps people learn about the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths, inspiring others and creating new role models. We asked editors at Nature Research to talk about female scientists who’ve made major contributions to their fields.
This blog was written by Mark Staniland and cross-posted from Nature’s of schemes and memes blog.
A new report created by Digital Science looks at championing the success of women in science, technology, engineering, maths, and medicine (STEMM). Here we share a contribution to the report by Dr Michael Head, who discusses gender inequalities in research funding. The report has fittingly been published on Ada Lovelace Day and can be viewed in full here.
Today, BMC launches its new journal, Sustainable Earth. Peter Newman, the Editor-in-Chief of the journal, talks about the need for a new publication on this topic and what he hopes the journal will achieve.
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