- Searching content
- Refining search results
- Sorting search results
- Boolean operators, search function results and wildcard searches
- Advanced search tools
- Additional features
Searching content
A user can search all content on Springer Nature Link from the homepage, the integrated page header across the site, and the search page.
This allows users to discover content from SpringerLink, including:
- All content formats: journals, books, reference works, protocols, content collections and more
- Broad subject coverage: science, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences
- Content from Springer, Nature Portfolio, Palgrave Macmillan, Adis, BMC, Apress, and more
Searching from the homepage:
Searching from the integrated page header:
Refining search results
Search results can be refined by:
- Content Type (journals, books, chapters, reference works, protocols, content collections)
- Publication date (Specifying custom dates, or filtering for content published in the last 3, 6, 12 and 24 months)
- Language
- Discipline, subdiscipline, and subject
Sorting search results
Search results can be sorted by:
- Relevance to the keyword query
- Date (new to old)
- Date (old to new)
Boolean operators, search function results and wildcard searches
The Springer Nature Link search tool supports operators that can be used for greater specificity over search results.
Learn more about supported search operators.
Advanced search tools
Springer Nature Link offers advanced search tools to help you find more precise results by offering additional search options.
Learn more about the Advanced Search Tools.
Additional features
We are working to improve our search experience, helping people to keep up to date with new publications, including an upcoming rollout of the option to export search results data.
Viewing content you are fully entitled to
You will see in the search results which content you have full-text access to, via your institutional subscription or other content license. You will see the “Full access” icon above the content title (example below).
Please note that for other content you will be able to preview the content to see content metadata (e.g. Abstract, Figures, References, Supplementary information, etc.), and evaluate your access options.
