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Heidelberg/New York, 11 November 2009

Springer offers free access to papers by this year’s Nobel Prize laureates on SpringerLink

Eight 2009 Nobel Prize winners published in Springer books and journals

Springer is offering all journal articles and book chapters written by this year’s Nobel Prize laureates free of charge on its online information platform www.springerlink.com. The articles and chapters will be available to print out or download from now until 31 December 2009.

Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak, winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, published their research in journals such as Current Genetics and Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres. The Physics Prize laureate, Charles K. Kao, contributed to the journal Applied Scientific Research. Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath, who received the Chemistry Prize, chose journals like Extremophiles or Immunogenetics to publish their papers. The winners of the Prize in Economic Sciences, Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson, contributed many articles to the journals Public Choice and Policy Sciences.

SpringerLink is the world's most comprehensive online collection of scientific, technological and medical journals, books and reference works. Launched in 1996, SpringerLink provides students and researchers with electronic access to nearly 35,000 eBooks, 2,000 peer-reviewed Springer journals, as well as approximately 20,000 protocols for laboratories.

Springer is a leading global scientific publisher of books and journals, delivering quality content through innovative information products and services. It publishes close to 500 academic and professional society journals. Springer is part of the publishing group Springer Science+Business Media. In the science, technology and medicine (STM) sector, the group publishes around 2,000 journals and more than 6,500 new books a year, as well as the largest STM eBook Collection worldwide. Springer has operations in about 20 countries in Europe, the USA, and Asia, and more than 5,000 employees.

For a complete list of the articles by Springer’s Nobel Prize winners in 2009, see
http://www.springer.com/authors/author+zone?SGWID=0-168002-12-645899-0

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