Technical standards

Crossref/DOI
We assign a DOI to each of our articles and submit these to be recorded permanently by CrossRef - the official DOI link registry agency for scholarly and professional publishers. This allows linking from a reference citation on one platform to another, and ensure that if an article is moved to a different location at some point in the future (or its URL is changed), the original link will still take the user to the new location.

Counter
Project Counter was devised to standardise the way the publishers recorded and display statistics. SpringerOpen usage statistics are COUNTER-compliant.

RSS
SpringerOpen syndicate all of our articles automatically using RSS, enabling us to instantly distribute articles and keep readers up to date with what we are publishing.