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RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS REPORT 2017 CONTENTS 1 Introduction 10 Advancing discovery 32 Key data 2 About Springer Nature 16 Advancing learning 33 How we report 4 Foreword from the 18 People and partners Chairman and CEO 24 Responsibility to 6 What responsible business the environment means to Springer Nature 28 Responsibility to 8 Grand Challenges the community ADVANCING DISCOVERY ADVANCING LEARNING PEOPLE AND PARTNERS PAGE 10 PAGE 16 PAGE 18 RESPONSIBILITY TO THE RESPONSIBILITY TO THE ENVIRONMENT COMMUNITY PAGE 24 PAGE 28 1 Springer Nature is a leading global research, educational and DISCOVER professional publisher, home to an array of respected and LEARN trusted brands providing quality content through a range of innovative products and services. We are the world’s largest ACHIEVE academic book publisher, publisher of the world’s most influential journals and a pioneer in the field of open research. In this, our first Responsible Business Report, we invite you to discover more about Springer Nature: about our values and the role we play in the communities where we operate around the world. Every day, around the globe, our brands and imprints support the important work of millions of people – helping researchers and scientists to discover, students to learn and professionals to achieve their goals and ambitions. “We believe every good idea should realise its potential.” RESEARCH EDUCATION PROFESSIONAL Advancing Discovery Advancing Learning Advancing Achievement Books Language learning Medicine Journals Schools curriculum Transpor t Databases International Engineering curriculum Products and services Business management Higher education Responsible Business Report 2017 2 ABOUT SPRINGER NATURE Formed in 2015 through the merger possible service to the whole research Every day our imprints, of Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave community: helping authors to share Macmillan, Macmillan Education and their discoveries; enabling researchers books, journals and Springer Science+Business Media, to find, access and understand the resources are used by Springer Nature now employs around work of others; supporting librarians 13,000 staff in around 50 countries, and institutions with innovations in millions of people. and distributes content in more than technology and data; and providing 180 markets. quality publishing support to societies. Springer Nature advances discovery by As a leading educational and professional publishing robust and insightful research, publisher, Springer Nature also provides supporting the development of new quality content through a range of areas of knowledge, making ideas and innovative platforms, products and information accessible around the world, services. Our textbooks are used and leading the way on open access. Key in classrooms, lecture halls and to this is our ability to provide the best laboratories around the world. 2017 marked 175 years since Julius Springer founded his publishing company. In 2018, we celebrate the 175th anniversary of Daniel and Alexander Macmillan’s first foray into the book trade. These anniversaries, and others to come in the next few years, remind us of the roots from which the company continues to grow. 2017 2019 Springer 175th Nature Research 150th anniversary anniversary 2015 2018 2020 Springer Nature created through merger Macmillan Scientific American 175th anniversary of Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave 175th anniversary BMC 20th anniversary Macmillan, Macmillan Education and Springer Nature 5th anniversary Springer Science+Business Media. 3 Advancing learning and discovery in 2017 Highlights Launched 30 new journals, Launch of Springer Affordable We enabled researchers to including Nature Human Textbooks Campaign, aiding publish more than 90,000 Behaviour, Nature Ecology & students and helping institutional open access articles and Evolution, Communications Biology, libraries deliver greater value there were around 240 million Process Integration and Optimization across their campuses. downloads of fully open access articles for Sustainability and Economics of on the BMC, nature.com Disasters and Climate Change. and SpringerLink platforms. Launch of Springer Nature Experiments, to make the Groundbreaking issue Nature Research, BMC and Springer world’s largest collection of of Nature, 'The Future of Work', Open signed up to the San Francisco experimental protocols and methods brought together research and Declaration on Research more easily usable when planning comment into the dramatic shifts Assessment, which calls for and running experiments, helping in the labour market caused by the improvements in the ways in which to improve research lab productivity. growth in artificial intelligence and the outputs of scientific research are machine learning. evaluated that look beyond the impact factor. We have also trialled mandatory Expansion of SciGraph, use of ORCID identifiers for research our Linked Open Data published in Springer Nature journals, 175 years since Julius Springer offering, which collates to help increase the recognition founded his bookstore and publishing information from across the research for their full body of work. house in Berlin in 1842. Marked landscape to make data important anniversary with events themed to the research process more around the future of the academic discoverable. The number of accessible book, as we take his legacy data relationships expanded from into the 21st century. Scientific American’s Twitter 130 million to more than one billion. feed now followed by more than three million people. Life & Robotics symposium NursingXperience – arranged by the brought together 25 of the Professional division of Springer Macmillan Education launched its world’s leading roboticists to Nature and the biggest yearly event English Medium programme of discuss trends and future impacts of for learning and networking for curriculum materials for teachers, robots designed to assist humans. nurses in the Netherlands – attracted students and parents whose first more than 3,500 people. language is not English. Beginning with textbooks for maths and Endorsed the Transparency science, the programme also offers and Openness Promotion a range of professional development (TOP) Guidelines, which and training for teachers encourage more transparent using the materials. research processes. JANUARY 2017 VOL 7 NO 1 www.nature.com/natureclimatechange Hourly precipitation extremes FOOD CARBON TAX Mitigation and health co-benefits OCEAN ACIDIFICATION Biodiversity and biogenic habitat GLOBAL CROPLANDS Heterogeneous emissions Responsible Business Report 2017 4 HELPING TO SOLVE GRAND CHALLENGES Springer Nature builds on the firm foundations of The values of our founders continue to live strongly within strong values and great tradition. From the very start, Springer Nature. We serve researchers, teachers and professionals on every continent to advance their discovery. Over time, our taking on grand challenges was core to the mission role has changed to a great extent. Today, we not only edit and of Julius Springer, who opened his first bookshop disseminate manuscripts, we share information, enable powerful and academic publishing house in Berlin 175 years collaborations across all disciplines and institutions, provide ago. Being passionate about progress through the valuable data and analytical insights and use modern tools to help researchers, educators and professionals stay up to date power of knowledge and equality, he stood up and and advance their careers. fought for these enlightened principles in the German revolution of 1848. Daniel and Alexander Macmillan, As leaders in open research, we believe in unhindered access to the brothers who first set up in the book trade in the intellectual treasures that generations of wise women and men have brought to the fore. We follow and focus on the abundant London and Cambridge, UK in 1843, were driven by opportunities of our times while tackling the grand, urgent societal the same innate curiosity and belief in the positive challenges – from personalised medicine and the use of new impact that sciences, humanities and literature could materials, to life-long learning, climate change and sustainability. bring to our daily lives. These challenges provide motivation and inspiration to many Springer Nature employees. It is also, as a company that publishes and brings together world-leading research, our responsibility to foster better understanding and evidence-based solutions to those challenges. Fortunately, our universe leaves many questions open for generations to come. Springer Nature aims to continue to play its progressive part in supporting the research community to answer these challenges successfully. As a board, we are committed to developing Springer Nature as a responsible business, working with a highly experienced executive management and a passionate employee base to create productive and meaningful changes for the benefit of all. Stefan von Holtzbrinck Chairman 5 THE VALUE OF OUR PUBLISHING As the son of two academics, and having grown up This is why Springer Nature has led the way in open access on a university campus, I have always appreciated and why it continually invests in technology solutions – both to respond to the emerging challenges of researchers and to the hard work and dedication that goes into better serve them in their quest to advance discovery. advancing the scientific record. It has been a privilege for me to join Springer Nature as CEO. Springer Nature is an important part of a global