Springer announced that it has rolled out its free content sharing initiative, now named SharedIt, to all of the Springer Nature-owned portfolio and over one thousand additional co-owned and partner-owned journals. This now encompasses over 2,300 journals and enables authors and subscribers to post links to free-to-read versions of primary research articles anywhere, including social media platforms, repositories, websites, scholarly collaborative networks and via emails.
It follows a successful trial and roll out of the initiative for research articles in Nature-branded journals which has resulted in over 2.2 million additional article views since its launch in December 2014. As the first publisher to trial free sharing of subscription journal articles back in December 2014 via a new service now named SharedIt, they are confident that our initiative would be a useful service to our authors and subscribers, which was why we took the bold step to trial it.
Uptake of the service and the positive feedback we have received since then clearly demonstrate that there is a need and a real appetite for a simple, quick and legitimate way to share research in the academic community. This led us to the decision to invest in extending SharedIt across the entire portfolio, in combination with our partners at ReadCube, said Steven Inchcoombe, Chief Publishing Officer at Springer Nature. They believe that SharedIt is particularly beneficial because, unlike when PDFs or paper versions of research are circulated, the SharedIt links ensure that the most up to date, online version of the article is accessed, as well as providing valuable information to librarians, our authors and the wider community about how content is being utilized.
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