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The Education eBook Collection contains a broad range of crucial education research from all around the world.

Money makes the world go round. Questions about how it flows, who gets what, and what it is used for fundamentally affect the lives of everyone on the planet – and indeed the future of the planet itself.

In this fast-moving field, computer science researchers need to disseminate their results quickly, often favouring conference publications over journal articles.

The better we understand how business works, the better we train tomorrow’s entrepreneurs and business leaders, the better we deploy our planet’s finite resources – the better the world for us and future generations.

In line with research and governmental funding, the main focus of this Springer Nature eBook collection is (human) health and all the relevant United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Dozens of authors and three distinguished Editors-in-Chief have worked on our newest and most comprehensive standard work: The Springer Handbook of Surface Science, which brings together all aspects of surface science, from experiment and theory to advanced applications, in a single book.

The 2022 collection is home to cutting-edge, evidence-based titles designed to sharpen clinical skills and knowledge for trainees, practitioners, and seasoned physician-researchers at all levels and from every therapeutic area.

Springer’s Mathematics and Statistics book program is world-renowned and has published many bestselling textbooks, and monographs. The Collection can be relied on to cover everything by the leading specialists of any given field.

Since its inception in 2016, the Literature, Culture and Media Studies eBook collection has been home to some of the most cutting-edge research in the humanities, and this year is no different.

The current extent and development pace of Intelligent Technologies is set to drive substantial technological and societal change over the coming decades and will help to make this dream come true.

Concerns about the climate and lack of access to clean and affordable energy have prompted research efforts worldwide to explore renewable energy sources, improve energy efficiency and reduce energy costs. If we can address both, we can help prevent an environmental catastrophe for our planet while improving the health and standards of living of hundreds of millions.

When we launched the combined Earth and Environmental Science eBook package, with just 163 titles for the first time in 2005, we had no idea that it would develop and become as successful as it is today.

The Chemistry and Materials Science eBook collection has focused on communicating research that not only aims to deepen our fundamental understanding but also highlights how this knowledge can be used to provide answers to solve complex global challenges.

Part of a series of blogs looking at the knowledge, work and dedication that goes into the creation of Springer References. Today we talk to Carol A. Mullen, editor of Handbook of Social Justice Interventions in Education and Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Virginia Tech in the United States.

Every year between 4th and 10th of October the world celebrates space week to celebrate science and technology in the field. In order to contribute to the celebrations we interviewed Dr. Ramon Khanna about the Astronomy and Space Sciences book program at Springer Nature.

Read our interview below with Lisa Scalone, Associate Editor (Books), Science, in which she tells us about the book she is most proud to have published in 2020 and what makes this book stand out.

In our Proud to Publish series we talk to our editors about the books they were most proud to publish, commission or work on in the past year. Read our interview below with Hisako Niko, Editor (Books), Science, in which she tells us about the book she is most proud to have published in 2020 and what makes this book stand out.

Read our interview below with Dr. Ramon Khanna, Executive Editor Science Books, in which he tells us about the book he is most proud to have published in 2020.

Throughout human history, the fields of chemistry and materials science have been at the frontier of science and technology. Find out more about the Chemistry & Materials Science eBook collection.

Institutions can now purchase Single Titles through our new eBook Selector Tool. We have created a user friendly interface

Anil Chandy, Vice President at the Springer Nature leadership team for books explains how Springer Nature References can support researchers.

A worldwide network of academic leaders, a passion to educate and pioneering technology are the key ingredients in publishing a Reference.

Sofia Costa, Associate Editor Chemistry and Tanja Weyandt, Associate Editor Biomedicine talk to us about the book they are most proud to have published in 2020

Part of a series of blogs looking at the knowledge, work and dedication that goes into the creation of a Springer Reference. Today we talk to Professor Yu Liu about his work on the Handbook of Macrocyclic Supramolecular Assembly

Daniel Falatko, Editor for Food Science and author himself, talks to us about the book he is most proud to have published in 2020

Part of a series of blogs looking at the knowledge, work and dedication that goes into the creation of Springer References. Today we talk to Professors Soonhoi Ha and Jurgen Teich about their work on the Handbook of Hardware/Software Codesign.

Wayne Hu, Editor, Engineering, based in Shanghai, talks to us about the book he is most proud to have published in 2020

With a trend in switching to remote access and digital learning resources, librarians are looking into new options to cater the demands for faculty and students researching and studying from home.

Read our interview with Martin Peters, Executive Editor, Science, who talks to us about the book he is most proud to have published in 2020

For this blog post we interviewed our Senior Editor, Statistics Books Group Leader, Dr. Eva Hiripi, about the book she is most proud to have published.

In this article Dr Rémi Lodh, our Senior Editor for Mathematics Books and mathematician himself, tells us about a book he’s particularly proud of.

In recent years, there has been a real change in attitude towards statistics. We spoke to Daniela Witten about the second edition of her popular textbook and how statistics has developed as a discipline in recent years.

We spoke to Springer Nature’s VP, Books, Dr. Dieter Merkle, about sustainability trends within the engineering sector and current growth areas.

Find out what book our Mathematics editor books, Loretta Bartolini, was most proud to publish in 2020.

In this blog post of our Proud to Publish series we talk to Satvinder Kaur, Senior Editor for Humanities books.

In this blog post of our Proud to Publish series we talk to Priya Vyas, Editor for Applied Sciences about the book she was most proud to publish in 2020.

In this blog post of our Proud to Publish series we talk to Mary James, senior editor for Applied Sciences about the book she was most proud to publish in 2020.

With digital curriculum materials a hot topic on campuses worldwide, we talked to an author, an editor, and a librarian to hear about how Springer Nature collections support the virtual teaching environment.

In recent years, there has been a real change in attitude towards statistics. We spoke to Statistics Book Editor, Laura Briskman about the growing importance of data scientists in all fields of research and industry. 

In our Proud to Publish series we talk to our book editors about the books they were most proud to publish, commission or work on, in the past year.

In this article our guest speakers Jessica Morales, Director of Collection Strategy and Acquisitions, and J. Parker Ladwig, Mathematics and Life Sciences Librarian, both from the University of Notre Dame, talk about their journey in defining a collection development strategy as well as, aligning business models with local priorities.

We talked to Susan about her latest projects, her long-standing appreciation for libraries and her book "Libraries and Archives in the Digital Age".

At the beginning of October 2020, we announced our new Flexible eBook Solutions, which offers a broader range of choice to libraries and institutions.

In this webinar recording Dr Annie Le Blanc shares her experience managing the Resources and Information Engineering group.

Sara Duff, Acquisitions & Collection Assessment Librarian at the University of Central Florida Libraries, explains the process of eBook collection acquisition.

When students make a decision about their future field of study, their assessment of likely career opportunities that will open up as a result of the education received plays an important part in the decision making process.

We spoke with Nick Melchior about the Education eBooks program and latest developments.

The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has contributed to growing concerns around textbook affordability. Read more here

We spoke to Professor Shailendra K. Saxena about researching, teaching and publishing during the pandemic and how working with Springer Nature has helped disseminate his vital research to a wide audience for maximum impact.

The author of the textbook ENZYMES: Catalysis, Kinetics and Mechanisms talks about the success of this book and how it is being used for teaching and learning.

In the past decade, eBook collections have become more common place, publishing technologies have improved.

Steven Skiena is a Distinguished Teaching Professor of Computer Science and Founding Director of the Institute for AI-Driven Discovery and Innovation at Stony Brook University, The State University of New York. We spoke to Steven about his research, his published books and how the Augmented Age will affect our lives in the future. Read the interview here.

April 2020 | Our lives – and livelihoods – depend on the plants, animals, and microbes of this planet. The current extent and pace of environmental change however, threatens our very way of being. At this point, our only hope is decisive action – a movement that must be informed by research in disciplines dealing directly with life. Biomedicine and Life Sciences provides just that.

Proceedings are not a book of abstracts. Papers in conference proceedings contain original/primary research results, published as full or short papers. In Springer Nature’s computer science editorial group, we select conferences for publication using the editorial boards of or via trusted partner societies. Find out more about the role of conference proceedings for researchers and why they play a critical role in computer science.

As part of our series of interviews with librarians about the role Springer Nature’s eBook Collection plays at their universities, we asked Arielle Lomness of Okanagan Library, University of British Columbia's eBook collection and usage.

As part of our series of interviews with librarians about the role Springer Nature’s eBook Collection plays at their universities, we asked Edward about Virginia Tech’s transition from print to online content, how his department successfully promoted the eBook collection and how students, researchers and academics have responded to it.

It has been 50 years since, on 20th July 1969, Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin were the first humans to set foot on the moon. Together with command pilot Michael Collins, the team of astronauts was launched into space on the Apollo 11 spaceship. Now, fifty years later, the US has announced plans to send people into space again.

Springer Nature published its first machine-generated book in chemistry which provides an overview of the latest research in the growing field of lithium-ion batteries. We talked to Springer Nature’s project owner and Director Product & Metadata Management, about the reasons to create a machine-generated book and the implications on future content creation in scholarly publishing.         

Dr. Christoph Janello, Head of Portfolio Development and Metadata at the Library of the Bundeswehr University Munich shares what motivated the library to purchase SNBA and the benefits it has provided to their users. 

2018 marked Macmillan’s 175^th anniversary and here, Head of Economics & Finance at Palgrave Macmillan (an imprint of Springer Nature), Rachel Sangster, talks about how this Collection balances emerging trends and experimental theories with longstanding expertise from renowned authors and leading global institutional partners.

We talk to Bruno Siciliano - Professor of Control & Robotics at the University of Naples Federico II, and Past-President of the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society - about the evolution of robotics, his visions of...

Launching in 2019, the Springer Nature Intelligent Technologies and Robotics eBook collection will publish established knowledge and cutting-edge research across a variety of formats - from monographs and...

One of the newest Springer eBook offerings is the German-language education ebook package. Springer Social Sciences and Humanities Editorial director, Andreas Beierwaltes, shares the ins and outs of this new package, and what librarians can expect.

In an interview with Felicity Plester - Editorial Director for Palgrave Humanities – and the Commissioning Editors of the Literature, Cultural and Media Studies collection, we explore how publication formats are being adapted to support changing research practices.

Springer Nature has replaced its MARC Downloader with an enhanced Metadata Downloader which is seeing fast uptake from the global library community. We asked two of the minds behind the tool - Sebastian Bock, Digital Product Manager in the Metadata Management Team and Björn Johansson, Senior UX Designer – what had inspired the new tool, what improvements they’ve made, and how it has been welcomed by librarians.

As part of a series on Springer Nature’s book categories, we spoke to the Vice President of Major Reference Works, Anil Chandy, along with Editors Michael Hermann and Ruth Lefevre, to find out how these titles are evolving and what impact this could have on libraries and researchers.

In 2014 we interviewed Philip Kent - then Librarian at the University of Melbourne - who instigated the institution’s first large-scale eBook archive purchase as part of a drive for institutional innovation and to ‘redress gaps in past acquisitions’.

A letter from the Editor: Stephen Partridge - What a year. As Britain stumbles shambolically towards Brexit, the US pulls up the drawbridge and withdraws from the TPP, and China’s growth continues to slow, the economy, and the worlds of business and finance, have been central to all of the major challenges facing our societies.

What a busy and productive year we have had in Palgrave Humanities! We have published several hundred new titles to serve the academic humanities community globally.

A letter from the Editor: Tamsine O'Riordan - 2017 was an important year for Palgrave Macmillan Social Science. We’ve moved into new product types, adopted market-leading metrix systems

A letter from the Editor: Cristina M. Brian - Christina M Brian is Publisher for International Political Economy and heads up the global Politics and International Studies team.

Montana State University is home to almost 17,000 students and over 1,000 faculty. It has been classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as one of 108 research universities with "very high research activity."

As digital content increasingly drives academic research, and the belief that information sourced online will overtake printed formats in coming years grows, libraries are going through their own physical and strategic transformation.

Springer Nature’s Major Reference Works (MRW) portfolio contains over 600 peer reviewed, high profile trade and academic references from Palgrave Macmillan and Springer References.

2017's breakthrough technologies and innovations are changing the world we live in. These modern-day innovations are remarkable, but surprisingly are not possible without the support of older, historical published research for knowledge foundations and verifications. 

The Springer Nature eBook collections portfolio delivers Professional Handbooks from Springer, which maintains the highest standards of references in key areas of the physical and applied sciences for practitioners in industry and academia.