Springer Link is a product of the German publisher of Springer Co., which is one of the strongest databases in different domains. In addition, Springer is the largest book publisher and the second publisher of specialized journals of the world, presenting the Kluwer along with its publications. Access to the documents presented by this publisher, including reference works, protocol, books, and lecture notes, depends on the type of purchase of universities and scientific institutes. Moreover, Springer provides the link of published and electronic texts of Springer- Verlag and a list of top publishers in the form of full texts.

Springer Features:

·         In 2006, the site had approximately 190 million users.

·         About 38,000 book titles have been registered on the database.

·         It is possible to search and review more than 5.8 million scientific records, including books, journals, memorandums of understanding, and reference works.

·         400,000 institutions, including universities, libraries, and research units, have subscribed in the database.

·         The database provides access to more than four million documents, including 2113 journals.

·         The publications access link of the database includes more than 34,565 book titles, 156 reference books, and approximately 1062 periodical books in areas such as chemistry and materials sciences, geology and the environment, computer sciences, medicine, humanities and sociology and law, engineering, mathematics and statistics, physics and astronomy, business and economics, architecture and design, arts, behavioral sciences, biomedical sciences, advanced computing and web design.

Access to Electronic Books of Springer Database

You can enter the main page of Springer electronic books in two ways:

1. Enter the direct address of http://www.springerlink.com/books in the address bar of your browser.

2. There is a link with the address of http://www.springerlink.com/books in the main Springer Database. By clicking “Books”, you can enter the main page of electronic books of Springer.

·         This database has two basic and advanced search sections. In addition, books can be searched based on their title in the alphabet section.

In advanced search, it is possible to determine the specifications of publication, author or editor, and order of results. Therefore, this type of search yields better results.

It is also possible to adjust results based on relation, date, and title.

Note: there is a white or green square next to each record, where the green square shows that the library shares that record and its full text can be attained. In addition, the white square means that the record is not shared by the library, and the full text must be purchased.

The text can be obtained in three forms:

1. PDF

2. HTML

3. Page-to-page observing of the text

Registration on Springer

Click “Login” on the home page of Springer.

After signing up in the database, you can use facilities such as:

Managing data by email or postal address

Changing your selection through Springer Newsletters

Keeping keywords from previous searches

Registering to review or assess books online and online ordering of the book (if subjected to discount as a Springer author, the discount will be applied automatically).

It is recommended that users register in this section for better use of this database.

Types of Search

Quick Search

Advanced Search in Springer Database

You can use the advanced search by selecting * next to the search box. In this type of search, it is possible to determine the specifications of the publication, author or editor, content, and order of results. Therefore, this type of search yields better results. In addition, a more accurate type of search is provided in advanced search.

·         Advanced search

·         With all of the words: by entering your desired words in this section, all documents containing the terms will be retrieved.

·         With the exact phrase: the exact form of the phrase will be searched in this section.

·         Without the words: by entering a word in this section, you have actually eliminated the word from your search.

·         Where the title contains: by entering the word in this section, it will only be searched in titles of documents.

·         Where the author/editor is: if you want to search a specific author or editor, you can enter his/her name in this section.

·         Show documents published: in this section, you can limit your search in terms of time.

After the search, the search results page will be displayed.

Include preview-only content: if you check this box, search results will be retrieved regardless of organization access. If you do not check this box, results will be retrieved based on access to an organization.

However, the retrieved records that have a lock sign are inaccessible, and only their abstracts are available. In terms of open access records, you can select “download PDF” to obtain the full text of the article.

Content type: you can determine the type of document, including books and articles.

Discipline and subdiscipline limit the subjects.

Language: selects the language of documents.

You can filter your search by selecting each of these items.

By selecting relevance, results will be arranged based on the level of association between the article and keywords. In addition, the results will be arranged in terms of the time of publication by selecting the newest first and oldest first.

In the retrieved article, you can observe the authors’ specifications (view article) by selecting the email address and corresponding author.

Springer alert informs you about advances on the database when you sign up on springer. In addition, you can receive special offers and learn about journal content and publication of future books. To enter Springer alert, you can refer to springer.com/alert.

Sending articles to Springer journals

First, you must select your desire journal. By clicking “issues & browser volumes”, you can observe all journal issues arranged by year and month. In addition, the impact factor can be observed on the right side of the page.

Impact Factor

This notion shows the level of impact of an article on the next papers. As a quantitative index, the impact factor demonstrates the level of referrals to articles in a journal.

Journals with a high impact factor are important, compared to journals with lower impact factors.

Select manuscript submission, click “register now” and complete the registration form. After that, your password will be sent to your email.

You can send your article to the journal by entering your username and password.