Functionalities and Features

Featured books and journals will be continuously displayed on the homepage.

Users will be able to identify open access content when they are viewing the items abstract page.

Users will be able to access online first articles via the "All Volumes and Issues" pages.

All continuously published articles will be displayed on the site with their associated article citation ID and the online date.

If you don’t have access: We show the first 2 pages for every document, unless the document’s size is actually less than 2 pages, in which case we don’t show a Look Inside. (e.g. reference work entries).

If you do have access: We show the whole document in the look inside. This counts as a download if the user browses to page 3 or beyond.

We have done the rasterization to make images out of every page of the PDF document for almost all the documents, but for very new ones you may find that this process has not been completed yet, in which case you will get the message when you open the Look Inside “Free Preview not available” (in English and in German).

Access Indicators will allow a user to easily recognize when they do not have access to a resource. These indicators are set to indicate when access is not available. If a user has access, no separate indicator will appear.

A user with access to an article, chapter, protocol or reference work entry will be able to download the associated PDF directly from a search results page or from its abstract page.

A user with access to an article, chapter, protocol or reference work entry will be able to view the full text html directly from a search results page or from its abstract page if the full text HTML is available.

From the abstract page a user will be able to access any available electronic supplementary materials for a given article, chapter, protocol, or reference work entry.

The site provides the user with the ability to expand and contract a list of references for an article, chapter, reference work entry or protocol. A user can directly link to internal resources which have been included as a reference. Where applicable, a user can directly link to external resources which have been included as a reference using Crossref.

Users are able to export citations for articles, chapters, reference work entries and protocols in ris/txt/bib formats.

Where full text HTML is available a user will be able to jump directly to the main sections within the article from the abstract page.

Users will be able to link directly to the editorial board of a journal from the abstract page of an article. A user will be able to access additional information about a journal via a link to Springer.com. A user will be able to link to a page to submit their manuscript from a journal or article abstract page. Users will be able to link to TOC alert registration pages from the abstract page of an article.

A user will be able to access additional information about a book via a link to Springer.com

The SpringerLink and Springer for R&D sites currently supports English and German navigation. Additional languages will be added in the future.