Springer Science+Business Media
Founded | 10 May 1842 | (as Springer-Verlag)
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Founder | Julius Springer |
Country of origin | Germany |
Headquarters location | Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany |
Nonfiction topics | Science, technology, medicine, business, transport and architecture |
Owner(s) | Springer Nature |
Official website | www |
Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational
Originally founded in 1842 in Berlin, it expanded internationally in the 1960s, and through mergers in the 1990s and a sale to venture capitalists it fused with Wolters Kluwer and eventually became part of Springer Nature in 2015. Springer has major offices in Berlin, Heidelberg, Dordrecht, and New York City.
History
Julius Springer founded Springer-Verlag in Berlin in 1842 and his son Ferdinand Springer grew it from a small firm of 4 employees into Germany's then second-largest academic publisher with 65 staff in 1872.[2][3] In 1964, Springer expanded its business internationally, opening an office in New York City. Offices in Tokyo, Paris, Milan, Hong Kong, and Delhi soon[when?] followed.[citation needed]
In 1999, the academic publishing company BertelsmannSpringer was formed after the media and entertainment company Bertelsmann bought a majority stake in Springer-Verlag.[2][4] In 2003, the British investment groups Cinven and Candover bought BertelsmannSpringer from Bertelsmann.[4] They merged the company in 2004 with the Dutch publisher Kluwer Academic Publishers (successor of D. Reidel, Dr. W. Junk, Plenum Publishers, most of Chapman & Hall), and Baltzer Science Publishers) which they bought from Wolters Kluwer in 2002,[5] to form Springer Science+Business Media.
In 2006, Springer acquired Humana Press.[6]
Springer acquired the
In 2009, Cinven and Candover sold Springer to two private equity firms,
In 2011, Springer acquired Pharma Marketing and Publishing Services (MPS) from Wolters Kluwer.[10]
In 2013, the London-based private equity firm BC Partners acquired a majority stake in Springer from EQT and GIC for $4.4 billion.[11]
In January 2015,
Products
In 1996, Springer launched electronic book and journal content on its SpringerLink site.[14]
SpringerImages was launched in 2008. In 2009, SpringerMaterials, a platform for accessing the
AuthorMapper is a free online tool for visualizing scientific research that enables document discovery based on author locations and geographic maps, helping users explore patterns in scientific research, identify literature trends, discover collaborative relationships, and locate experts in several scientific/medical fields.[16]
Springer Protocols contained a collection of laboratory protocols, recipes that provide step-by-step instructions for conducting experiments, which in 2018 was made available in SpringerLink instead.[17]
Book publications include major reference works, textbooks, monographs and book series; more than 168,000 titles are available as e-books in 24 subject collections.[18]
Open access
Springer is a member of the
Controversies
In 1938, Springer-Verlag was pressed to apply
In 2014, it was revealed that 16 papers in conference proceedings published by Springer had been computer-generated using
In 2015, Springer
Manipulation of bibliometrics
According to
Seven Springer Nature journals, which exhibited unusual levels of
Selected imprints
- Adis International[27]
- Apress
- BioMed Central
- Chemistry Central (defunct)
- PhysMath Central (defunct)
- Birkhäuser Verlag
- Current Medicine Group
- Humana Press
- Infochem
- Kluwer Academic Publishers (defunct)
- Plenum Publishers
- SpringerOpen
- Springer Gabler
- Springer Praxis Books[28]
- Spektrum Akademischer Verlag] (SAV))
- Springer Vieweg
Selected publications
- Encyclopaedia of Mathematics
- Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete (book series)
- Graduate Texts in Mathematics (book series)
- Grothendieck's Séminaire de géométrie algébrique
- The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics (book series)
- Zentralblatt MATH
- MRS Bulletin
See also
- Category:Springer Science+Business Media academic journals
- List of publishers
- Media concentration
References
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- ^ a b "The Springer story (1842-2017)". Springer. Transition and restructuring (1999-2007). Archived from the original on Jun 14, 2021. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
- ^ "Chronology Archived 2020-04-14 at the Wayback Machine". Springer Science+Business Media.[dead link]
- ^ a b Poynder, Richard. "BertelsmannSpringer is Sold to Private Equity Firms". Information Today. May 27, 2003.
- ^ "Kluwer Academic Publishers Sold to Venture Capitalists". Infotoday.com. Retrieved 2014-08-15.
- Springer-Verlag. 20 February 2008. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
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- ^ Howley, Victoria; Walsh, Tessa (December 11, 2009). "EQT, Singapore fund snap up Springer Media". Reuters.
- The Financial Times. June 19, 2013. Archivedfrom the original on June 22, 2022. Retrieved June 22, 2022.
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- ^ "Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and BC Partners Announce Agreement to Merge Majority of MacMillan Science and Education with Springer Science+Business Media". macmillan.com. 15 January 2015.
- ^ Caroline Carpenter (May 6, 2015). "Completed merger forms 'Springer Nature'". The Bookseller. Retrieved July 8, 2015.
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- ^ "SpringerMaterials Information". Springer Support. Retrieved May 29, 2022.
- ^ "Springer.com, Palgrave.com, and Apress.com are changing". Springer. Archived from the original on Jun 16, 2022. Retrieved May 29, 2022.
- ^ "SpringerProtocols.com platform deactivation". Springer Nature. Retrieved December 31, 2020.
- ^ "FEDLINK Services Directory: Springer Science & Business Media, Inc". www.loc.gov. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
- OASPA. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
- ^ "Springer Open Choice". Springer.com. Retrieved August 15, 2014.
- ^ "Springer Open Choice for Polish Institutions". Springer.com. Retrieved August 15, 2014.
- ^ "Otto Neugebauer - Biography". Maths History. Retrieved 2022-06-18.
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- ^ Kaplan, Sarah (August 18, 2015). "Major publisher retracts 64 scientific papers in fake peer review outbreak". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 24, 2015.
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- ^ Oransky, Ivan (June 29, 2020). "Major indexing service sounds alarm on self-citations by nearly 50 journals". Retrieved July 1, 2020.
- Newspapers.com(Publisher Extra).
...an article produced by Adis' parent company, Springer Science+Business Media.
- ^ Springer Praxis Books. Springer Science+Business Media. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
External links
- Official website
- Mary H. Munroe (2004). "Springer Timeline". The Academic Publishing Industry: A Story of Merger and Acquisition. Archived from the original on 2014-10-20 – via Northern Illinois University.