Springer Nature Open Research Day is a whole day scientific program focusing on scientific publishing, peer-review and innovation. The speakers, who are the most experienced editors from Nature and BioMed Central, will share their in-depth knowledge of scientific writing and publishing, helping researchers to benefit from open access publishing and to accelerate research career.

Springer Nature is a major new force in scientific, scholarly, professional and educational publishing, created in May 2015 through the combination of Springer Science+Business Media, Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, and Macmillan Education.

As part of Springer Nature, BioMed Central is the leading open access publisher of STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) research. Founded in 2000, BioMed Central has successfully pioneered the open access publishing model and brought open access to the mainstream.  We now publish over 290 journals in biology and medical sciences, over 170 of which indexed by SCI.