The benefits of Springer's TOC Alert e-mails are numerous, and the number of subscribers growing rapidly. Society Zone expands on this, and offers you a new feature.

Society Zone talks to the president of KACST, Dr. Mohammed ibn Ibrahim Al-Suwaiyel about this new publishing cooperation.

Springer talks to Heinz Pampel of the Helmholtz Association, a new member in Springer’s Open Access Membership Program, about Open Access publishing.

Feedback from our valued society partners across a variety of subject disciplines. In this issue we talk about major accomplishments in 2010, social media and open access publishing.

Realtime.springer.com is a special service that lets you track what content is being read by the scientific community, all over the world, as it is happening.

Springer’s aim in the Middle East is to help new journals become internationally recognized and to facilitate cooperations within the region. A number of partnerships have recently been established.

As content moves increasingly to an electronic environment, societies and researchers must feel confident that their published research is protected for future use.

A guide to the various types of article labeling you find in SpringerLink. What articles can a user access, which have been published as Open Access articles?