After a long partnership and period of partial ownership, Springer Nature has increased its investment in Research Square Company (RSC) to take full ownership. Research Square Company (RSC) comprises American Journal Experts (AJE), which provides best-in-class AI-powered and professionally delivered author solutions, and Research Square, the world's number one multidisciplinary preprint platform.
The acquisition reflects the shared ambition of the two companies to provide faster, better, quality-assured author solutions. This includes helping authors improve their manuscripts before submission and sharing their research before and after publication.
It will strengthen Springer Nature's ability to provide solutions designed to meet the needs of all researchers better and bring forward the open science revolution. For example, AJE's best-in-class digital editing tools and leading Research Impact Solutions help authors get published and increase awareness of their research post-publication. Research Square's multidisciplinary preprint platform allows every author to enjoy the benefits of sharing their research early.
The partnership between the two organizations dates back to 2008 when AJE began providing journal editing services to Nature authors. Springer Nature invested in AJE in 2016 and, in 2018, became a minority owner of the Research Square platform. Additional investment in 2020 saw Springer Nature become the majority owner of the Research Square platform and AJE.
Over this time, this partnership has seen: more than 180,000 preprints posted on Research Square, making it the fastest-growing preprint server; the launch of In Review, the integrated preprint deposition service, now available on over 700 Springer Nature’s journals, including the Nature titles; and language barriers eliminated for thousands of international researchers with the AJE team editing more than one million papers across 447 areas of study.
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