Springer Science+Business Media
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Springer Science+Business Media or Springer (IPA: [ˈʃpʁɪŋɐ]) is a worldwide publishing company based in Germany, which publishes textbooks, academic reference books, and peer-reviewed topical journals, with a focus on science, technology, mathematics, and medicine. Within the science, technology, and medicine sector, Springer is the largest book publisher, and second-largest journal publisher worldwide (the largest being Elsevier), with over 60 publishing houses, 1,900 journals, 5,500 new books published each year, sales of 924 million euro (in 2006) and 5,000 employees.[1] Springer has major offices in Berlin, Heidelberg, Dordrecht (Netherlands) and New York.
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[edit] History
British investment groups Cinven and Candover bought the academic publishing company BertelsmannSpringer from Bertelsmann in 2003.[1] They merged it in 2004 with the Dutch publisher Kluwer Academic Publishers which they bought from Wolters Kluwer in 2002,[2] to form Springer Science+Business Media. BertelsmannSpringer was formed after Bertelsmann bought a majority stake in Springer-Verlag in 1999.[1][3]
In September 2007, the company reorganized into two divisions, according to a Springer news release. One division, STM Local Publishing, will manage local STM publications in France, Switzerland and Austria, Asia and the Americas, and also non-German-language medicine and pharmaceutical publications. It will include the imprints Apress, Key Curriculum Press, Springer Asia, Springer India and Springer Japan as well as Springer Healthcare Communications, Current Medicine Group, FMC, Springer Italy and Infochem. The other, STM Global Publishing, will include the remaining products.
[edit] Selected journals
- Advances in Therapy
- Formal Aspects of Computing
- Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering
- Journal of Orthopaedic Science
- Mathematical Intelligencer
- Mathematische Annalen
- Primates
- Theoretical and Applied Genetics
[edit] Selected publications
- Encyclopaedia of Mathematics (online [2])
- Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete (Book series)
- Graduate Texts in Mathematics (Book series)
- Grothendieck's Séminaire de géométrie algébrique
- Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften
- Landolt-Börnstein
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- Problem Books In Mathematics
- Springer Handbook Series
- Springer Series in Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics (Book series)
- Springer Series in Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing (Book series)
- Springer Series in Optical Sciences (Book series)
- Springer Series in Surface Sciences (Book series)
- Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (Book series)
- Springer Tracts in Modern Physics (Book series)
- Topics in Applied Physics (Book series)
- Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics (Book series)
- Zentralblatt MATH
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b Poynder, Richard. "BertelsmannSpringer is Sold to Private Equity Firms". Information Today. May 27, 2003.
- ^ "Kluwer Academic Publishers Sold to Venture Capitalists"
- ^ "History". Springer Science+Business Media.
