Updates

This new name reflects the expanded content from across Springer Nature including Nature Portfolio, Springer, BMC, Palgrave, Discover and Apress, that is now available on the platform.

For now, the URL remains link.springer.com. There is no need to update any links in your systems. We will communicate any future URL changes well in advance.

We encourage you to update any references from SpringerLink to Springer Nature Link and to use our new logo.

To make it easier for patrons to find journals for reading or publishing, we have redesigned and expanded our “Journals A-Z” page on SpringerLink.

On the new page researchers who are trying to find a suitable journal to publish in can paste their abstract or keywords and get recommendations from across our 3000+ journals. Those who are looking for a journal to read can of course use the same system, but perhaps with more focus on the keywords search.

It's also possible to browse our journals by subject.

In the eBook order history section of the Librarian Portal you can now see your eBook orders from the past 15 years. We show orders of single eBooks, collections, Access & Select, MyCollection, and Reference modules. Journal orders, as well as orders of business models with books and journals (like Content on Demand) are not included. The order history can still contain errors. If you find such, contact customer service so we can make any needed corrections.

SN Metadata, where you can get MARC records and KBART title lists, is now part of the Librarian Portal. We hope this makes it easier to remember where to get different types of metadata and holdings lists. No functionality or content has changed.

Alongside the launch of new article and homepage designs for our SpringerLink journals, you will see we have a new homepage for SpringerLink which aligns this flagship page with the new visual design. This is the first refresh for over a decade.

The new homepage design:

• Connects visitors with publishing opportunities, content, and other relevant SN information designed to meet their needs
• Demonstrates the breadth, depth and quality of content published by Springer Nature, across both journals and books
• Is better optimised for search engines, with the new page aiming to improve search ranking to drive traffic from Google

There now is a greater emphasis on authors and Open Access and ensuring we not only provide pathways to access content. We are now connecting visitors with publishing information and other Springer Nature services that could be relevant to them, in particular via Researcher Home - our Login Portal.

The design also features the new SpringerLink header which includes the ecommerce cart, as well as the ‘Find a journal’ and ‘Publish with us’ links which takes users to a recently updated page giving information for journal and book authors.

Alongside our new visual design, we have also launched reading recommendations for articles and books on article pages, as well as Calls for Papers recommendations on the SpringerLink homepage. These recommendations now provide an opportunity for us to connect researchers with content and opportunities to publish that might be of interest to them. Where a user has signed into the Researcher Home portal, they will benefit from content and Calls for Papers recommendations tailored to them.

The more users are logging in on our platforms the better we can build up a valuable profile of our researcher’s interests and habits to tailor their experience to their needs.

Beyond this, we’re also continuing to look at opportunities to further scale personalised recommendations tailored to the career stage of our users, to ensure we can give users the right information at the right time.

To accompany the new visual design changes to SpringerLink, we have updated the search in SpringerLink with the new design and functionality improvements.

In the new experience, users will now benefit from

• A comprehensive content search, which easily allows users to discover research, books, Collections, and Calls for Papers, from all Springer Nature imprints, and all nature.com content
• Optimised search result relevance, which helps users to quickly discover the right content for them
• Platform navigational search, which also connects users with relevant publishing opportunities, information, Open Access guidance and products from SN

Our new foundational search technology, will continue to optimise the ranking algorithm for search results and will also enable us to experiment with new discovery experiences in the future (e.g. vector search approaches), and gives us the opportunity to target search behaviours beyond keyword search patterns (e.g natural language queries). The new technology will also allow us to combine additional data to enhance the functionality in search, examples of this would be adding citation data to allow users to sort articles by citation count, or turnaround time to sort journals by this metric, or publishing imprint to allow onward journeys from brand hubs.

Ultimately we intend to have a single set of technologies which power search for all imprints and platform experiences. For now, to support the needs of several user groups we will maintain the old search for now, and provide a link to users wishing to access the old page.

With the new SN Account users can log in to SpringerLink, nature.com, SNAPP, Your research, SpringerMaterials and AdisInsight. These platforms used to have separate accounts, but now users only need to remember one password, and only log in once across all the platforms.

This work embodies our commitment to simplicity, openness, and connectivity within our Springer Nature ecosystem.

For now the Librarian Portal and Article Approval Service does not use the SN Account – as a librarian you will need to log in separately to these services. Our intention is to extend the SN Account to additional Springer Nature products that require authentication, including our tools for librarians.

SN Account log in form

As part of our plans to build a more open, simple, and connected experience for our users, we have a new look on SpringerLink. The new visual design brings consistency across Springer Nature websites and services, making it

• visually consistent
• navigationally consistent
• familiar-feeling
• accessible and easy to use

Our websites are the first point of contact for potential authors, researchers, and librarians. We are improving how we:

• Connect visitors with publishing opportunities, content, and other relevant SN information designed to meet their needs
• Showcase the breadth, depth and quality of content published by Springer Nature, across both journals and books
• Optimise for search engines, with the new page aiming to improve search ranking to drive traffic from Google

You will see that journals and articles on SpringerLink are now more closely aligned. By releasing this new design to both article and journal pages, we take a step closer to a more integrated user experience. Each journal’s visual identity is persistent to aid familiarity. Clear signposting makes it simpler to find information about the journal and choose where to publish work, and most crucially, surface publishing and reading opportunities in open access (OA). We have also improved society branding on relevant journal sites with a new prominent position for a society logo in the journal masthead. Books and chapters have also been updated in line with the new visual identity.

We’re always working to improve our digital services to better support our communities. As we continue making updates, it’s with your needs in mind, so you can focus on discovery.

“Your research” is the new hub for those who have, or are considering, publishing with us. The site, available on link.springernature.com/home/, collects information about benefits to publishing with us, personalised calls for papers, and recommended journals to publish in. Which a paper is in review, researchers can see the status of their submission, and after and article has been published, usage and other impact measures are available.

You may have seen that you can now access research and review articles on both nature.com on SpringerLink. Syndication means that nature.com articles will be discoverable on SpringerLink through its search, content recommendations and subject page functionality. Syndicated articles will be displayed and read on SpringerLink, have a SpringerLink URL and a different design to the nature.com version, but the content will be identical.

Nature.com’s article reading experience will remain as the sole entry point of that content from search engines and DOIs; while the syndication to SpringerLink will drive incremental traffic previously not available to nature.com. The impact of syndicating content will increase as we improve our onsite discovery journeys, such as onsite search, recommendations and journeys by subject.

Usage of syndicated nature.com content will be included in COUNTER reports, increasing the value of the journals to those who purchase content. The usage will be reported separately for usage on the platforms (SpringerLink, nature.com, and ResearchGate) so to get total usage, the three numbers will need to be summed up.

This is a significant step in our continual improvements to broaden the reach of our content.