30 March 2020
Resource hub
The central resource hub contains links to relevant research from Springer Nature journals and books, as well as additional commentary on COVID19. Editors are also selecting pertinent content to highlight. Overall more than 12,000 pieces of journal and book content are free to access, and will continue to be so for as long as needed. Nature and Scientific American have also released podcasts from experts on the pandemic and its development, and Nature Briefing provides research updates.
Users are encouraged to get in touch if they are not able to access an article that they believe to be important in both understanding and addressing this emergency.
Springer continues to work with authors, editors and researchers to encourage early sharing of research submitted to journals through preprints and continue to strongly urge authors submitting articles related to this emergency to share underlying datasets relating to the outbreak as rapidly and widely as possible.
Institutional support and enhanced remote access
A dedicated federated access page has been created, and also a dedicated resources page for librarians to support the community through access and resourcing challenges that have arisen from the COVID-19 crisis.