SpringerLink: online access to my published article
Access via IP address
If your institution has purchased access to Springer’s journals, your IP address will be recognized and you can access your article via your institution’s network.
Remote access
SpringerLink offers off-campus access via username and password and supports access via Athens and Shibboleth. Both Athens and Shibboleth allow users to use single, sign-on to access web resources.
Springer offers access through Shibboleth via the institution login located in the login area on the right side of the screen in the masthead. Please contact your librarian and ask if your institution has a method of authentication that allows for off-campus access.
Search your journal article on SpringerLink
As an author, you are the first to be informed about the online publication of your article in SpringerLink via an email. This email is sent out the day your article is published in final version online on SpringerLink and includes a direct link to the abstract page of your article.
(Note that your email address must be published with the article online to receive an automatic author alert email).
Another fast and easy way to find your article in SpringerLink is to use the search on SpringerLink. There are a variety of different ways to search on SpringerLink. You can conduct a simple search by article title, author last name or DOI to find your published article on SpringerLink.
By entering a search term or phrase, you are searching the title, the abstract and the full-text (including authors, affiliations and references) of every article and book chapter on SpringerLink.
Cite your journal article
To cite your published article, use the “Export Citation” functionality offered as a tab above every article abstract. You can select the “RIS” or “Plain Text” option and your preferred citation manager. Your article citation will automatically open in Notepad if you choose not to use a citation manager, which you can save, or copy and paste.
Users will be able to export citations in RIS or plain text directly into ProCite, Bib Tex, EndNote, Reference Manager, RefWorks, PubMed(LNM), and BookEnds.
For citing Springer Online First articles that are available before being published in a paginated print issue, use the DOI (Digital Object Identifier) as a unique reference and link to the online version of the article. We recommend following these CrossRef guidelines: CrossRef.org
Questions about access, user name, password
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