Springer Nature: Open in Order to Advance Discovery

We’re delivering on open access, will you join us? We kicked off Open Access Week with this blog by Steven Inchcoombe, Chief Publishing Officer at Springer Nature. Steven announced an open access milestone at Springer Nature: In four European countries, over 70% of our journal articles are now being immediately published (gold) open access. Steven also details the myriad of benefits that an open approach to research brings. Research in Progress report On Tuesday we proudly published our Research in Progress report. The report highlights our work and achievements over the past year and showcases our plans for the future. On the BMC blogs we shared Publishing Director Rachel Burley’s introduction to the report. Rachel highlights how we have moved from being BioMed Central, the open access publisher, to simply BMC, renewing our commitment to research in progress and innovation. The report also details how we have published nearly 70,000 open access articles in 375 journals between July 2016 and July 2017. Some of our proudest work showcased in the report includes the SpotOn 2016 conference at the Wellcome Collection (click here for information on SpotOn 2017), the fact that 84% of BMC authors rated their overall publication experience at their BMC journal as ‘excellent’ or ‘good’, and the fantastic winning images of our Research in Progress photography competition. The State of Open Data The opening day of Open Access Week saw the publication of Figshare’s The S...
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