Bookkeeping or science: what’s behind a paleo data compilation?

Bookkeeping or science: what’s behind a paleo data compilation?

Here Professor Kaufman talks about the importance of community-endorsed data compilations for accelerating discovery in paleoclimate science. He helped coordinate an international consortium that assembled “A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era”, which was published on 11 July in the journal Scientific Data.  Read more

Open access compliance: supporting Springer Nature authors

Open access compliance: supporting Springer Nature authors

Meeting the open access (OA) requirements of research funders and institutions can prove a real challenge for authors. As the increase in records in the registry of OA repository mandates and policies (ROARMAP) demonstrates, the number of organisations with OA requirements is increasing every year, meaning more and more researchers are subject to such policies.  Read more

Beyond data: SpringerMaterials Interactive goes live

Beyond data: SpringerMaterials Interactive goes live

This week the American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting and Exposition is taking place in San Francisco. In the wings of the conference, we talked to Dr Padilla about what’s changed in materials science research, and why SpringerMaterials‘ recent upgrade to ‘interactive’ could be a huge value to its broad base of researchers.  Read more