Springer Nature

The company operates a content and platform‑centric publishing model. It acquires and curates scholarly and professional content (journals, books, data resources, protocols and news/editorial material), manages peer review and production workflows, and distributes this content via proprietary online platforms and storefronts. Value is created by organising, validating and hosting specialised research and reference content, and by providing workflows and tools that enable authors to publish and readers to discover and use that content.

On the demand side, the company packages its content into institutional licence bundles for universities, consortia, libraries and corporate R&D organisations, and also offers individual content purchases and open‑access publishing options. It complements core content access with specialist databases (e.g. materials and protocol databases) and author services (editing, formatting, submission support). The recently acquired Research Square Company extends this model into preprint hosting and editing services, tightly integrated with its publishing workflows.

Springer Nature AG & Co. KGaA is a Germany‑based scholarly and professional publisher formed in 2015, with more than 5,000 employees and over €1 billion in revenue. It owns major journal and book portfolios across science, technology, medicine and related fields, delivered through online platforms for research articles, books, reference works, protocols, databases and news/editorial content.

The company earns revenue primarily from institutional and consortia licences to its digital platforms and content packages, subscription and one‑off sales of books and articles, open‑access article and book processing charges, specialist database subscriptions, and paid author‑support services. Its paying customers are mainly universities, research institutes, libraries, funders, corporate R&D groups and individual professionals or researchers purchasing content or publishing services.