The University of Cambridge has joined other institutions around the world in providing its students and researchers with access to SpringerMaterials, a research solution published by Springer Nature for identifying materials and their corresponding properties.
University of Cambridge is the highest ranking institution in the UK, and fourth globally, for materials science, according to the QS World University rankings 2017. Access to SpringerMaterials will support researchers across the University from Materials Science and Metallurgy, Chemistry, and Physics departments, as well as engineering and other related fields.
SpringerMaterials is a comprehensive and multidisciplinary collection of materials and chemical properties, curated by materials science experts. It provides extensive coverage of all major topics in materials science and related disciplines, with over 290,000 materials and more than 3000 properties. The platform's specialised functionalities enable researchers to easily find what they need, analyse and visualise different data types, and integrate these data types into their research workflows.
Researchers and students at the university have actively been using content from the Landolt-Börnstein series for many years. The series is the largest collection of critically evaluated property data in materials science and is just one of six major data sources included in SpringerMaterials. In addition to having access to an expanded data set and functionality specifically designed to work with materials data, an important factor in the decision to use SpringerMaterials was the ability for users to reference original sources, which is supported by the platform.
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