This article describes the academic publishing company "Springer" . For the newspaper company started by Axel Springer, see
Axel Springer AG.Springer Science+Business Media or Springer is a worldwide
publishing company based in
Germany with major offices in Berlin, Heidelberg, Dordrecht (Netherlands) and New York, which focuses on academic journals and books in the fields of science, technology, mathematics, and medicine. Within the Science, Technology, and Medicine sector, Springer is the largest book publisher, and second-largest journal publisher worldwide (the largest being
Elsevier), with over 60 publishing houses, 1,900 journals, 5,500 new books published each year, sales of 924 million euro (in 2006) and 5,000 employees.
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