SpringerLink
Latest screenshot: 2024-07-22
Access to search interface:
open
Last major interface update:
N/A
Owner of search system:
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Location of system headquarters:
Cham, CH
Year of launch:
1995
Type:
Journal platform
Help URL:
X-Handle:
Description of search system (by system owner)
SpringerLink is the world's most comprehensive online collection of scientific, technological and medical journals, books and reference works. The leading edge of information for people on the frontier of research SpringerLink offers electronic and printed literature from Springer-Verlag, a preeminent scientific publisher with a reputation for excellence spanning more than 150 years.
Total coverage:
15.88M
Year-over-year growth (2020-2021):
11.15%
Subject coverage:
Multidisciplinary
Retrospective coverage:
1843–2022
Record types:
12
Open Access records:
1.80M / 11.34%
Search functionality and interface
Systematic keyword searching:
limited
Backward citation searching:
sufficient
Forward citation searching:
sufficient
Query builder:
Search history:
Match preview:
Sorting options:
3
Query
Latency with short query:
0.89 seconds
Latency with long query:
2.59 seconds
Controlled vocabulary:
Field codes:
4
Full text search:
Search string length (narrow):
N/A
Search string length (wide):
10 terms max.
Language support: Chinese:
Language support: Cyrillic:
Truncation:
Wildcards:
Keyword position irrelevant:
Longer strings, fewer hits:
Automatic query expansion (stemming):
Verbatim queries:
Reproducible queries (time):
Reproducible queries (locations):
Operators
Search operators:
7
Boolean 'OR':
Boolean 'AND':
Boolean 'NOT':
Proximity operator:
Boolean works exact:
Nested search (parentheses):
Citation search / filtering
Record type filters:
12
Results filters:
6
Suggested related records:
Supported by bibliometric tools:
N/A
Backward citation information:
Backward citation score:
93.54%
Forward citation information:
Forward citation score:
53.12%
Retrieval
Number of accessible records:
19980
Bulk select records:
Bulk export records:
1000
Export formats:
2
API:
upon request
Bulk select records' backward citations:
Bulk export backward citations:
1
Bulk select records' forward citations:
Bulk export forward citations:
1
