Trends in Scientific Publishing at Springer

Scientific publishing has undergone tremendous changes in the last decade, and it is still evolving rapidly. This article describes some of the issues that are facing scientific publishers, and shows some examples of what one of the commercial publishers, Springer, has done and is working on, in order to stay abreast of these changes and to embrace the new technologies that become available. Springer has moved rapidly into the digital age and has by now digitized almost all its journal content and a significant part of its book content. We have developed new capabilities that make use of the new technologies available and are in the process of further utilizing these new possibilities. Web products like AuthorMapper, SpringerProtocols, and Social Networking sites explore some of these new capabilities. We will continue to explore enhancements of our scientific publishing efforts to provide new possibilities for communicating scientific research.