eBooks

Book archives

Tap into the experience of previous generations of researchers and rediscover the value of past research going back to 1851, to enhance your current research activities. The Springer and Palgrave Book Archives are one of the most expansive single source of past research ever created. These digital archives help to reduce storage capacity and measure ROI of archival content.

Preserve

Preserve

Knowledge drives innovation. We recognize its relevance to the next generations of researchers. That’s why we brought together 175 years of the most important research and discovery in the Springer Nature eBooks archives.

Rediscover

Rediscover

Positive usage trends prove the significance and the continuing value of research in the Archive. Researchers today are tapping into the experience of previous generations of researchers can improve and accelerate research today.

Connect

Connect

License to the full Springer Nature Book Archives gives limitless users instant and unlimited access to the research and to researchers themselves – In perpetuity. A one-time purchase represents huge long-term cost efficiencies.

Collections to add to your library

The Springer Book Archives

The Springer Book Archives (SBA) include over 110,000 scholarly eBooks dating back to the 1800s. The SBA offers 11 English-language subject collections and 6 German-language subject collections available by full subject collection or by year set.

SBA English-language subject collections

  • Behavioral Sciences: 1,400+ titles        
  • Biomedical & Life Sciences: 7,900+ titles     
  • Business & Economics: 3,000+ titles        
  • Chemistry & Materials: 4,000+ titles        
  • Computer Science: 6,000+ titles            
  • Earth & Environmental Sciences: 2,500+ titles
  • Engineering: 4,000+ titles
  • Humanities Social Sciences & Law: 5,000+ titles
  • Mathematics & Statistics: 7,000+ titles
  • Medicine: 7,500+ titles
  • Physics & Astronomy: 6,500+ titles

SBA German-language subject collections

  • Business & Economics (German): 11,000+ titles
  • Computer Science & Engineering (German): 11,000+ titles
  • Humanities & Social Sciences (German): 12,000+ titles
  • J.B. Metzler Humanities (German): 1,800+ titles
  • Life & Basic Disciplines (German): 10,000+ titles
  • Medicine (German): 9,000+ titles

Both collections are also available by smaller copyright year sets:

Vintage (pre-1990) | Modern (1990-1999) | Millennium (2000-2004)

The Palgrave Book Archives

The Palgrave Macmillan archive titles joined the Springer Book Archives portfolio, available as 8 separate archive collections with over 9,000 eBooks which include previously unavailable and out-of-print books.

The Palgrave Book Archives subject collections

  • Business & Management: 600+ titles
  • Economics & Finance: 1,500+ titles
  • History: 1,000+ titles
  • Language & Linguistics: 50+ titles
  • Literature & Performing Arts: 1,500+ titles
  • Political & International Studies: 2,000+ titles
  • Religion & Philosophy: 400+ titles
  • Social & Cultural Studies: 900+ titles

What our customers say

"The book archives provides valuable information across all subject areas; researchers and post-doctoral students are looking back on their own subject area and need to see what has been written before. The usage of titles in Computer Science was of particularly interest. Looking at how this has evolved over time and how the subject has developed is interesting to see in the book collection."

University of Boras, Sweden Librarian, Martin Borg

"We are thrilled to be able to add the book archives to the Springer content that we already offer to students, researchers and faculties at our university and library...We are also proud to be the first university in Asia to offer such an extensive amount of historical content, and we imagine that there will be high demand for such a useful resource across the region."

Waseda University Library, Tokyo, Japan