9. Are SpringerOpen journals indexed in bibliographic databases and search engines?

The full text of all SpringerOpen articles is immediately available to all without registration or subscription. This means that search engines such as Google Scholar can index them fully, greatly increasing their visibility. All SpringerOpen research articles are also indexed by the science focussed search engine, Scirus.

An increasing number of journals published by SpringerOpen are indexed by Thomson Reuters (ISI) and hence searchable through Web of Science and other Thomson Reuters products. Many of those have been awarded Impact Factors. Most of our journals are also indexed by Scopus.

SpringerOpen works closely with discipline-specific indexing services to ensure our journals are widely indexed. All articles in biomedical journals published by SpringerOpen are included immediately in PubMed and PubMed Central. We work closely with ADS for astronomy and physics, RePEc and EconLit for economy, Zentralblatt Math and Mathematical Reviews for mathematics, GeoRef for geosciences, DBLP for computer sciences, as well as many other services.

SpringerOpen participates in CrossRef and the Open Citation Project, allowing direct linking from citations to an article elsewhere to the full text of that article in a SpringerOpen journal.