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Springer Science+Business Media
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<p>Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational <a href="/facts/Publishing/7g01YeYG">publishing</a> company of books, <a href="/facts/E-book/yrBWpU8E">e-books</a> and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing. </p><p>Originally founded in 1842 in Berlin, it expanded internationally in the 1960s, and through mergers in the 1990s and a sale to venture capitalists it fused with <a href="/facts/Wolters_Kluwer/dlp5j9Jr">Wolters Kluwer</a> and eventually became part of <a href="/facts/Springer_Nature/TpTgApAh">Springer Nature</a> in 2015. Springer has major offices in Berlin, <a href="/facts/Heidelberg/jfbzRTo0">Heidelberg</a>, <a href="/facts/Dordrecht/nQxnbbj9">Dordrecht</a>, and New York City. </p>