Springer Science+Business Media or Springer () is a worldwide publishing company based in Germany which focuses on academic journals and books in the fields of science, technology and medicine. They are the second largest publisher worldwide in the Science, Technology, Medicine sector (the largest being Elsevier), with 70 publishing houses, 1,450 journals, 5,000 new books published each year, sale of 836 million euro and 5,000 employees.^*

The academic publishing companies Springer-Verlag and the Dutch Kluwer Academic Publishers were bought in 2003 by the British investment groups Cinven and Candover; the publishers were merged in 2004 to form Springer Science+Business Media. Springer publishes textbooks, academic reference books, and a large number of peer-reviewed topical journals in various academic disciplines.

Selected journals

• Formal Aspects of Computing
• Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering
• Mathematische Annalen
• Journal of Orthopaedic Science

Selected publications

• Encyclopaedia of Mathematics (online)
• Grothendieck's Séminaire de géométrie algébrique
• International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming
• Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Zentralblatt MATH
• Mathematical Intelligencer

See also

• List of publishers
• Media concentration

External links

• SpringerLink
• www.springer.com
• Press release on the merger of Springer Verlag and Kluwer

Book publishing companies of Germany | Academic publishing | Companies listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange

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