ReadCube, an innovative software developer serving researchers, publishers, academic and commercial organisations, has acquired Papers from global academic publisher Springer Nature.
Papers is a London-based, reference manager tool which helps researchers find and organise a personal library and cite research literature. The business will be headed by Robert McGrath, CEO at ReadCube. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Both companies were borne out of academia; both Papers and ReadCube were created by researchers for researchers. ReadCube was developed by Harvard researchers, while Papers was the creation of postdoctoral researchers at the Netherlands Cancer Institute. Its founders set out with an identical goal, to solve the problem they faced on a daily basis - to enable academic and scientific researchers to organise, read, cite and share research material from the growing mountain of electronic papers and articles available to them.
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