(5 Mar 2026) As Springer Nature marks ten years of its Research Communities platform, the company has expanded this established environment for researcher engagement with the launch of an ECR Hub – a purpose-built community for early career researchers. Over the past decade, the Research Communities have grown into a trusted home for authors, editors, and researchers worldwide where they…
(22 Dec 2025) Springer Nature has integrated new generative AI-powered features into its protocols.io platform to support more efficient researcher workflows and open sharing of research methods. It has added generative AI capabilities to protocols.io to reduce manual effort for researchers and support more efficient workflows. The enhancements are intended to support global collaboration and reproducible…
(4 Dec 2025) Springer Nature and OASE have signed a new agreement that expands open access publishing opportunities for institutions in Japan starting in 2026. The agreement will run from 2026 to 2028 and is intended to support universities and national research and development organizations that have expressed interest in participating in OASE’s transformative agreement framework. It will provide…
(27 Sept 2025) The attached article discusses the recent significant reduction in the availability of abstracts for scholarly articles from major publishers like Elsevier and Springer Nature on open academic metadata aggregators such as OpenAlex. Over recent years, AI-powered academic search tools have heavily relied on open abstracts for effective research discovery. However, since…
(21 Aug 2025) The Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the Government of India and Springer Nature have announced a collaboration aimed at strengthening awareness of research integrity, open access, and evolving scholarly publishing practices across India’s Tier 2 and Tier 3 academic institutions. The partnership is anchored in the RISE-UTTHAN initiative, an academic engagement…
(25 Jun 2025) The Trump administration has terminated millions worth of funding for Springer Nature, a German-owned scientific publishing giant that has long received payments for subscriptions from National Institutes of Health and other agencies. Earlier this year, the Justice Department sent a letter to a Springer publication questioning its editorial practices and accusing the…
(19 Jun 2025) Nature, a leading international scientific journal published by Springer Nature, has made transparent peer review (TPR) a standard for all newly submitted primary research articles selected for publication. The policy shift, which builds on the journal’s prior opt-in model introduced in 2020, marks a formal transition to universal TPR following a successful trial. Under…
(4 Jun 2025) Springer Nature and the Higher Education Electronic Resources Consortium (KONSEPt), the Malaysian consortium for higher education and research institutions, have announced the first national transformative agreement (TA) in Malaysia and among Southeast Asia countries. The parties say this agreement demonstrates the increasing momentum across economies of all sizes for open access (OA) publishing,…
(7 Apr 2025) Springer Nature has introduced a new AI-based tool to detect irrelevant references in submitted manuscripts, expanding its suite of in-house research integrity technologies. The tool is being deployed by the publisher’s Research Integrity Group (RIG) across nearly all Springer Nature journals and books. It automatically analyzes the relevance of cited references in submissions…
(17 Jun 2024) AskAdis is a new cutting-edge conversational chat interface developed by Springer Nature for the pharmaceutical drug development market using its AdisInsight , a market-leading drug development intelligence database with over half a million users annually. Off-the-shelf LLMs (large language models) are often inaccurate, incomplete or unreliable as they draw on all the content…