![]() ![]() USA Contact: Rachel Scheer, Senior Communications Manager, Springer Nature The percentage of authors choosing CC BY across all of NPG’s open access journals has risen dramatically – from 26% in 2014 to 96% in September 2015.įollow this story on Twitter, using the #scishare hashtag. Over 60% of 2015 research articles on are OA. Springer Nature continues to be a pioneer in the field of open research. This is complementary to, not an alternative to Springer Nature’s many open access and open research activities. This initiative was developed in order to help researchers collaborate, and provide the public with a way to read scientific content that has not been available to them before. Its publisher technologies have already been adopted by partners such as Wiley, Nature Publishing Group, Karger, De Gruyter, Rockefeller University Press and many others. ReadCube develops software to make research literature more manageable, accessible and connected for researchers, institutions and publishers. The technology behind this initiative was developed by ReadCube, part of the Digital Science family of companies. This is a significant step toward addressing researchers’ needs to share articles and knowledge while giving publishers and authors visibility on sharing activity.” Nicko Goncharoff, Director of Publisher Relations, Digital Science added: “Nature’s progressive policy combined with ReadCube technology enabled us to provide a positive, sustainable option for conveniently sharing subscription journal content. No-one in our industry has so far been able to do this, that is, to create the policy, supply the content and provide the digital platform.” This means that the initiative to offer on-platform, convenient sharing of the full text of articles using ReadCube’s enhanced PDF technology will continue indefinitely. Steven Inchcoombe, Managing Director, Nature Research Group, Springer Nature, said: “Our original aim had been to open up our treasure chest of scientific knowledge to both researchers and society at large, so we are very pleased that this content sharing trial has concluded with positive results. Top receiving nations were, in order: USA, UK, Canada, Germany, France, Japan, Australia, Spain, Brazil the Netherlands. The free read-only links were also accessed by readers across the globe.The free read-only links were shared all across the globe but the most active sharing was instigated by subscribers in: the USA, the UK, Japan, Germany, China, Canada, Spain, France, India and the Republic of Korea.The trial had no adverse implications for subscription-based journals either in terms of institutional business or individual article sales.Peer to peer sharing, where subscribers send or post shareable links to journal articles on tended to be mostly (67%) between subscribers and non-subscribers, with the remainder mainly accounted for by sharing between those who already had subscription access.In order, the most popular news outlets were: the BBC, the Guardian, the New York Times, Science Magazine and the Washington Post.The most popular article of 2015 was, “A new antibiotic kills pathogens without detectable resistance” published in Nature in January 2015. High-profile media reports of Nature journal articles from a plethora of international media outlets drove the most traffic of the trial.The most popular method of sharing of scientific articles has been via the media and blogger referral programme, which gave readers of articles free, read-only access to the full text of scientific articles in news stories and posts.The key findings of the year long trial are: The trial was also extended to 100 media outlets and blogs around the world that report on the findings of articles published on, allowing them to provide their own readers with a link to a full text, read-only view of the original scientific paper. In December 2014, a 12-month content sharing trial was set up to enable subscribers to 49 journals on to legitimately and conveniently share the full text of articles of interest with colleagues without a subscription via a shareable web link on, enabled by publishing technology company, ReadCube. The trial has concluded with positive results and the initiative to offer on-platform sharing of the full text of articles using ReadCube’s enhanced PDF technology will continue indefinitely. London, UK: Nature Publishing Group, part of Springer Nature, has announced the results of its ground-breaking 12-month content sharing initiative to support collaborative research. Full-text articles on will continue to be made widely available to read and share as content sharing initiative becomes permanentĭecember 10th 2015. ![]()
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