Springer, a major publisher of “high-quality STM journals, book series, books [and] reference works,” has just introduced its own portal for its collection of scientific, technical and medical works. Already there are about 11,000 titles available, including journal articles, book chapters, monographs and atlases. About 3,000 titles are expected to be added annually.

The big news here is that Springer is not requiring subscribers to submit to some system of digital restrictions management. The works are available in html and pdf form, libraries own ebooks they purchase in perpetuity, and everything is readable on the Nokia 770 Tnternet Tablet. Yes, you can use FBReader to read these works.

Smart move for Springer. Good news for Nokia 770 owners.

Thanks to Teleread for posting on this, having picked it up from the Hectic Pace blog by Andrew Pace.