STM publisher Springer is celebrating the third anniversary of the launch of its highly successful open access journal, SpringerPlus. Having opened for submissions on January 12, 2012, the journal has published over 1,600 articles to date.
SpringerPlus publishes sound science from all disciplines, accepting submissions that present original research, case descriptions, and methods. The journal also welcomes the submission of data reports and large datasets. Peer-reviewers are asked to focus their attention to data presented in the article, rather than whether there is an advance in the field. All submissions are screened before being sent out for review.
Authors receive feedback on their submissions even when the manuscript cannot be accepted for publication. Published articles are indexed in Scopus and PubMed.
SpringerPlus' exceptional editorial board includes leading academics from all disciplines, and is undergoing expansion at present owing to a growth in the number of submissions.
Alongside the main journal, SpringerPlus is a platform for the publication of sub-discipline article Collections, independently guest edited by leading academics in the field. Collections allow editors and authors to benefit from dedicated space in a large open access journal.
