19 March 2020
Over 100,000 OA articles published in 2019
Last year, Springer Nature published over 100,000 articles which were immediately OA across its portfolio of around 600 OA journals and 2200 hybrid journals. The majority of these were primary research articles. This means that 30% of all Springer Nature articles are published fully OA. Springer Nature has published over 800,000 articles open access in total.
PubChem partnership
A new partnership between Springer Nature and the open access database PubChem, hosted by the US National Institute of Health, now enables researchers to identify property information of materials and links to primary research. Springer Nature’s materials and properties database, SpringerMaterials serves researchers in the fields of chemistry, materials science, physics and beyond. This new collaboration means that over 32,000 compounds found on PubChem directly link to critically evaluated property data on SpringerMaterials.
Researchers using PubChem can now easily identify compounds with SpringerMaterials links under a specially dedicated SpringerMaterials Properties section on the ‘Chemical and Physical Properties’ tab in the compound’s table of contents. This section represents the list of relevant compound property information available on SpringerMaterials. Clicking on any one of the properties in this list will direct users to the SpringerMaterials platform which provides detailed, critically evaluated property information on the compound of interest.