Nature to allow shareable articles
23 Mar 2016 by Evoluted New Media
Springer Nature is to increase ease of access to its journals by allowing authors and subscribers the ability to share them with anyone.
Springer Nature is to increase ease of access to its journals by allowing authors and subscribers the ability to share them with anyone.
The change means content from more than 2,500 journals will be now more easily shareable. The links authors and publishers will receive can be posted on any platform such as their own personal websites, social media and institutions’ own websites.
Steven Inchcoombe, Managing Director at Nature Research Group said: “As a publisher of large parts of the scientific record we take very seriously our responsibilities to our authors to protect their rights and to researchers to maximize their access to and use of the content we publish. We think this initiative strikes the right balance, given researchers’ legitimate needs to share content as part of their collaborations and discussions and the increasing need of wider society to appreciate the results of recent research.”
The content sharing initiative is provided by ReadCube, who have produced Enhanced PDF versions of articles. In December 2014, Springer Nature trialled content sharing for 15 months, covering approximately 50 journals and 6,000 articles. The trial saw more than 1.3m additional articles accessed.
Inchcoombe continued: “We are the first publisher to offer multi-site content sharing across more than 300,000 new research papers per annum, which we believe will result in wider sharing. We hope other publishers will join us in addressing this critical need of researchers and wider society.”
