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“As a Management Board, we are excited by the enormous possibilies that this merger brings. Together we o will be able t think bigger, act bolder and achieve more by bringing more resources to bear, in more efficient ways and with a unifying passion for serving the ever evolving needs of our customers -­‐ academic researchers, students, teachers and professionals in all of our markets .” across the world Derk Haank, Chief Execuve Officer

[Title of presentaon] 3 A strategic merger between three famous publishers

[Title of presentaon] 4 Uning some of the best known brands in our field

[Title of presentaon] 5 Home to a breadth and depth of imprints, journals and products

[Title of presentaon] 6 Focused on science, educaon and professional publishing

13% *By revenue

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Science Educaon Professional

[Title of presentaon] 7 Based where our customers need us to be

*employees Europe c1750 c400 <10 c100 <50 c4700 United Kingdom Netherlands Denmark Poland c50 Russia Asia c1750 <10 <10 Austria Pacific North America Germany Sweden Czech c950 Republic c5900 c100 <10 <10 Switzerland <50 Ukraine Kazakhstan c150 c200 c950 <10 France Spain Turkey Bulgaria Japan United States c300 c50 c150 c600 <10 China South Korea <10 c50 Israel <10 <10 Mexico Slovakia Honduras <10 Italy c5250 Taiwan Guatemala c50 Nicaragua India c100 Egypt <10 <10 <10 <10 Hong Kong <10 Thailand El Salvador <10 Panama UAE <10 Costa Rica Jordan Dubai <10 <50 Africa Vietnam c250 Malaysia Colombia <10 <50 Ecuador c100 Peru Singapore <50 Brazil c50 c100 Lan Namibia Australia America <10 <50 <50 c950 Chile Zimbabwe c150 <50 Argenna Botswana c50 c100 <10 Swaziland New Zealand South Africa Lesotho Please note -­‐ Numbers have been rounded

[Title of presentaon] 8 With a simple ambion

To help researchers, students, teachers and professionals to

achieve and discover more..

[Title of presentaon] 9 How we help researchers to achieve and discover more

• We help researchers bring their research to the world by publishing across the research spectrum – breadth, depth and impact. • We make research discoverable and useful so it has the maximum impact within the research community and society at large. • We help researchers, and the instuons and funders that support them, to idenfy the research data and the trends that are most relevant to them and to put that informaon into context so they can be more effecve, efficient and successful. • We break down the barriers between the disciplines to make research more accessible and to accelerate discovery.

[Title of presentaon] 10 What this means for the research community

For… This means… Librarians More choice under one roof offering beer value, superior service and enhanced data and analycs to help you opmisese the u of your budgets.

Sociees and publishing Support from a new organisaon that unites leadingcademic a publishers partners who share a strong commitment to providing quality and choice to the research community. Researchers as authors Easier and faster submission; a consistent highity qual peer review process and seamless access to a wide range of publicaonons. op

Readers Beer plaorms, enhanced discoverability, funconality and work-­‐flow tools as well as access to more tles across a wider range of content and with a beer and more integrated reader experience. Sponsors and adversers More choice of inventory and soluons, enhanced global support and even beer reach.

[Title of presentaon] 11 How we help students and teachers to achieve and discover more

• Macmillan Educaon support students, instructors and instuons through a lifeme of learning by providing them with world class content in the most relevant, engaging and flexible formats. • Our passion for learning and commitment to educaon is second to none, which is why we remain the most trusted partner to deliver innovave soluons that will drive student performance and help educators and instuons to deliver excellent results.

[Title of presentaon] 12 How we help professionals

• The Springer Nature Professional Group is ading one of the le professional informaon providers in Europe and a market leader in the respecve specialist fields in Austria, Switzerland, Germany, France and Spain. • It focuses primarily on the areas of Medicine, Transport and Traffic and Business and Engineering, providing high-­‐quality professional informaon and services for its broad range of target groups. • In addion to magazines, journals and newspapers, the Professional Group offers events as well as websites, online services and databases.

[Title of presentaon] 13 Springer Nature Management Board

Derk Haank Annee Thomas Marn Mos Ulrich Vest CEO CSO COO CFO

Leveraging funconal Driving forward our Shaping the global Ensuring financial capabilies across the plans to innovate and systems and workflows stability/transparency group and establishing lead the way as a needed to support a and efficient services, clear business science publisher. growing and diverse as well as appropriate leadership and financial controls and business. coordinaon in key corporate governance. regions.

[Title of presentaon] 14 Thank you

[Title of presentaon] 15 What’s changing for our customers

• We are in the early stages of forming the new company • Your key contacts and contractual relaonships with us remain the same. • Springer and Macmillan Science and Educaon products and services which are now part of Springer Nature will connue to be sold separately unl further noce. • We will connue to sign new agreements, updateng exis contracts, and work with you on 2015/16 renewals as usual. • We will update you on progress and changes toe how w work in the months to come. • We will connue to provide the excellent service, quality content and products you expect from us, and our primary focus is to improvew ho we meet your needs. • We are excited about the opportunity to do much more to meet, and hopefully exceed, your expectaons. • As always, we welcome your comments and quesons. • Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us through your usual contact, and we look forward to connuing our work with you.

[Title of presentaon] 16 Our science business imprints and products

Nature Research Group Springer Research Group Open Research Group • Nature • Springer • BioMed Central • Nature Research Journals • Birkhäuser • SpringerOpen • Scienfic American • Chemistry Central • SpringerPlus (is a journal of • Spektrum • Springer Gabler SpringerOpen) • Scienfic American MIND • Springer Spektrum • Nature Communicaons • Nature Index • Springer Vieweg • Scienfic Reports • Nature Methods • Springer VS • Scienfic Data • Nature Protocols • SpringerReference • NPJs • Nature Reviews • Apress • Palgrave Communicaons • Nature Jobs • Open Choice • Nature Conferences • Palgrave Macmillan • Nature Masterclasses • NPG Academic Journals • Nature Educaon • zbMATH • Springer Shop • Springer Protocols • SpringerMaterials • Adis Insight • Macmillan Science Communicaon • Macmillan Medical

[Title of presentaon] 17 Our leading brands

Established in 1842 and a leading global scienfic, Founded in 1869, Nature is the world’s most cited Macmillan Educaon is the third largest global technical and medical publisher, providing scienfic journal, with over half a million citaons a provider of English language publishing in the researchers in academia, scienfic instuons and year. It is the number one muldisciplinary science world, a local K12 publisher and through Palgrave, corporate R&D departments with quality content journal globally with an Impact Factor of 41.456. a publisher and distributor of renowned higher via innovave informaon products and services. Nature reaches millions of sciensts and students educaon tles. Together they serve customers in Springer has one of the most significant STM at 4000 instuons worldwide, each month 3.5 50 markets and supply high-­‐quality content and eBook collecons and archives, as well as a million unique users view more than 8 million innovave digital products and services to comprehensive porolio of open access journals. pages on Nature’s website. customers in 120 countries around the world.

The largest open access publisher in A technical publisher devoted to Founded in 1845, Scienfic American A global academic and business the world, publishing over 286 peer meeng the needs of IT is the oldest connuously published publisher for the Humanies and reviewed open access journals across professionals, soware developers, magazine in the U.S. and the leading Social Sciences (HSS). Palgrave the fields of biology, biomedicine and and programmers. With more than source and authority for science, Macmillan is the first boundary-­‐free medicine. With over 1.8 million 1,500 books in print and e-­‐ technology informaon and policy for HSS publisher -­‐ working at all lengths registrants, BioMed Central can formats, Apress is the authoritave a general audience. The print edion and across all business models. It provide targeng opportunies source for IT professionals, soware is read by 3.5 million worldwide offers readers and authors a single across a range of specialies, job developers, and business leaders consumers and source for the best in professional tles and disciplines. around the world. ScienficAmerican.com has an learning and scholarship. average of 5.5 million views every month. [Title of presentaon]