Springer announced that its SpringerPlus journal has passed an important milestone – more than 1,000 submissions by authors wishing to be published in the journal. SpringerPlus is published under the SpringerOpen brand, and is an interdisciplinary, fully open access (OA) publication.

First launched in January of 2012, SpringerPlus is a peer-reviewed, open access journal with a broad interdisciplinary approach covering all areas of science, technology, engineering, medicine, the humanities and social sciences. All submissions are peer-reviewed with a singular focus on the scientific quality of the manuscript, rather than its fit with any one discipline, journal or editorial direction. SpringerPlus promises easy submission for authors and efficient publication processes – very short time between acceptance and publication.

SpringerPlus is now indexed by PubMed Central and Scopus®. Users can access the journal through MSKsearch on the Library’s Website or through the Library’s catalog, Tri-Cat.