Springer Science+Business Media
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Springer Science+Business Media or Springer (German pronunciation: [ˈʃpʁɪŋɐ]) is a worldwide publishing company based in Germany, which publishes textbooks, academic reference books, and peer-reviewed topical journals, with a focus on science, technology, mathematics, and medicine. Within the science, technology, and medicine sector, Springer is the largest book publisher, and second-largest journal publisher worldwide (the largest being Elsevier), with over 60 publishing houses, 1,900 journals, 5,500 new books published each year, sales of 924 million euro (in 2006) and 5,000 employees. Springer has major offices in Berlin, Heidelberg, Dordrecht (Netherlands) and New York.
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[edit] History
British investment groups Cinven and Candover bought the academic publishing company BertelsmannSpringer from Bertelsmann in 2003.[1] They merged it in 2004 with the Dutch publisher Kluwer Academic Publishers which they bought from Wolters Kluwer in 2002,[2] to form Springer Science+Business Media. BertelsmannSpringer was formed after Bertelsmann bought a majority stake in Springer-Verlag in 1999.[1][3] Julius Springer had founded Springer-Verlag in Berlin in 1842.[3][4]
In September 2007, the company reorganized into two divisions. One division, STM Local Publishing, will manage local STM publications in France, Switzerland and Austria, Asia and the Americas, and also non-German-language medicine and pharmaceutical publications. It will include the imprints Apress, Key Curriculum Press, Springer Asia, Springer India and Springer Japan as well as Springer Healthcare Communications, Current Medicine Group, FMC, Springer Italy and Infochem. The other, STM Global Publishing, will include the remaining products.
Springer's online delivery system, SpringerLink, is operated by MetaPress, a division of EBSCO Industries.[5]
[edit] Selected journals
- Advances in Therapy
- Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment
- Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
- Educational Studies in Mathematics
- European Biophysics Journal
- Experiments in Fluids
- Formal Aspects of Computing
- Hydrogeology Journal
- Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering
- International Journal of Fracture
- Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
- Journal of Orthopaedic Science
- Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing
- Mathematical Intelligencer
- Mathematische Annalen
- Oecologia
- Pharmaceutical Research - Journal
- Primates
- Theoretical and Applied Genetics
[edit] 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
- Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften
- Landolt-Börnstein
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- Springer Series in Surface Sciences (Book series)
- Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics (Book series)
- Zentralblatt MATH
[edit] Selected electronic tools
- AuthorMapper
- AuthorMapper is a free online tool for visualizing scientific research that enables document discovery based on author locations and geographic maps. The tool helps users explore patterns in scientific research, identify literature trends, discover collaborative relationships, and locate experts in several scientific/medical fields.
- AuthorMapper searches peer reviewed articles from more than 1,900 journals available on SpringerLink. Major subject areas include life science, medicine, engineering, mathematics, computer science, business, and law.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b Poynder, Richard. "BertelsmannSpringer is Sold to Private Equity Firms". Information Today. May 27, 2003.
- ^ "Kluwer Academic Publishers Sold to Venture Capitalists"
- ^ a b "History". Springer Science+Business Media.
- ^ "Chronology". Springer Science+Business Media.
- ^ "MetaPress to provide exposure for BertelsmannSpringer titles". EBSCO Information Services. June 9, 2003. http://www.ebsco.com/home/whatsnew/metaprovide.asp. Retrieved on 2009-06-14.
