Springer eJournals

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Year Joined PERii
2003

Resource Name
Springer eJournals

Resource Type
Online journals database with access based on IP recognition.

Access URL
www.springerlink.com

Title Listing
Countries have been offered a choice of packages, so please contact your country coordinator to establish which package has been purchased for your country.

You can download the list of titles in the Springer Basic Package.

Document 2010 basic title list (130kb)
Document 2011 basic title list (77kb)

You can download the list of titles in the Springer Enhanced Package.

Document 2010 enhanced title list (140kb)
Document 2011 enhanced title list (97kb)

Content Overview
Springer is one of the leading international scientific publishing companies. Springers eJournals cover a wide range of subjects including biomedicine and the life sciences, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer sciences, human sciences, social sciences and economics.

Subject Strengths

  • Engineering
  • Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
  • Mathematics and Statistics
  • Medicine
  • Physics and Astronomy

Service Strengths

  • Over 4 million contributions organised by subject.
  • Powerful and improved search engine.
  • Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
  • Free access to tables of contents, detailed abstracts and editorial background for every publication.
  • Consistent, user friendly guided navigation.
  • Reference linking & cited by linking.
  • SpringerAlerts keep users and librarians current with custom email bulletins.
  • Access via IP address or User Name/Password.
  • Worldwide Help Desk.

Impact Factors
Springer journals are widely abstracted in many services. We cooperate with all the services so our journals can found in large services such as Thomson(R) Web of Science and other more niche-appropriate such as Social Care Online etc.

Usage Guides
Usage guides and training information are available on springer.com/librarians.

Registration Information
Each institution is required to register to use Springer. If you have not used this resource before you may need to check if your institution is registered and identify the contact person who has your access details. To do this, please go to the PERii registration system and select your country and institution.

Access Information
Access by IP address recognition with username and password access for remote users. Provision for requesting Username and Password will be made on the online registration.

Publisher Support/Help Contact
Please contact SpringerLink Helpdesk via email springerlink@springer.com

URL to General Publisher Site
http://www.springer.com/

Further Information from your Country Coordinator
The details for your country coordinator can be found on your country page. Please use the 'Country Finder on the right-hand side of this page.

Information for Librarians

Administration Information
Access via SpringerLink.
The user guides for accessing the administration pages are available on springer.com/librarians.

Promotional Information/Materials
For marketing material that you can customise to promote Springer content within your institution click here or contact Springer Channel Marketing.

Publisher Newsletter Details
Springer sends regular alerts and information to librarians registered with SpringerAlerts. This also includes regular Serials Updates which include notifications of new and transferred titles. Register for these alerts here.

Usage Data Collection
Your institutional Administrator may download your COUNTER usage reports in 3 easy steps on SpringerLink.

Additional Publisher Resources
AuthorMapper
AuthorMapper is a free online tool for visualizing scientific research that enables discovery based on author locations and geographic maps. With AuthorMapper you can:

  • Explore patterns in scientific research
  • Identify new and historic literature trends
  • Discover wider relationships
  • Locate other experts in your field

AuthorMapper currently searches nearly 2,000 journals in the Springer Journals collection across all subject areas. Users can search by keywords, browse subject collections, or search for open access articles using Advanced Search. Search results display with complementary graphs, timelines, and keyword tag clouds that help visually summarize the data and also be used to further refine a search.

Exemplar
Exemplar is a free linguistic tool designed to aid the publishing process for authors, editors and the scientific community at large. Exemplar allows researchers to quickly see how a particular word or phrase is used in English-language, peer reviewed, published literature.


PERii FAQs
To find the answer to the most commonly asked questions about registration and access, see the Information resources FAQ page.

PERii Help Documents
Please see the online help documents for further information about INASP policy on username and password access, registration, registration record keeping, downloading from publishers websites, access issues and statistics.

Publisher FAQs
Answers to the most commonly asked questions about Springer are available via the publisher's information page or Springer's librarian page.