Digital Science provides software and information to support researchers and research administrators in their everyday work, with the ultimate aim of making science more productive through the use of technology. As well as developing our own solutions, we also invest in promising start-ups and other partners, working closely with them to help them realise their full potential.
We are a business unit of Macmillan Publishers Ltd. and our activities build on the reputation for editorial and technological excellence of its sister company, Nature Publishing Group (NPG). While building on NPG’s high-quality, innovative approach, we will focus on technology-based solutions for research rather than scientific content.
The Digital Science team brings together a wide range of expertise in science and technology, and is led by Timo Hannay, former digital publishing director of Nature.com. Visit our “Meet the Team” page for more on who we are.
The activities of Digital Science combine in-house software development and domain expertise with technologies and services created in collaboration with a range of world-class partners, including academic research groups, start-up businesses and established companies. If you are interested in working with us, please send an email. If you are seeking an investment partnership, please see this page first.
More about our partners
Nature Publishing Group is the scientific publishing arm of Macmillan Publishers Ltd., and a sister company of Digital Science.
BioData Ltd. is a startup that produces laboratory information management software. Their flagship product is a research management service. Digital Science acquired an equity stake in BioData in December 2010.
Symplectic Ltd. is a London-based company, specializing in software that tracks research contributions to aid in assessments and reporting. Their flagship product, Symplectic Elements, automatically tracks the published contributions of an organisation, simplifying research assessments and reporting, and helping to support use of institutional repositories. Digital Science acquired an equity stake in Symplectic in December 2010.
Labtiva is a Cambridge, MA based software company that operates ReadCube, an application that helps researchers manage and discover relevant literature in their fields. Founded in 2007 by Robert McGrath and Sinisa Hrvatin, Labtiva has offices in Kendall Square and in Zagreb, Croatia. Digital Science announced their investment in the company in October 2011.
More about our parent company
Macmillan Publishers Ltd. is one of the largest and best known international publishing groups in the world with staff operating in over 80 countries. It is a part of the privately-owned media group, Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH. Macmillan provides a wide range of high-quality information through its scholarly, educational, fiction and non-fiction publishing activities. Products include journals in science, medicine and the social sciences; academic mongraphs; educational course materials, textbooks and online resources; as well as serious non-fiction and literary fiction. For more information, please visit Macmillan’s website.