High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Springer Science+Business Media or Springer is a global publishing company which publishes books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, technical and medical (STM) publishing. Springer also hosts a number of scientific databases, including SpringerLink, SpringerProtocols, and SpringerImages. Book publications include major reference works, textbooks, monographs and book series; more than 35,000 titles are available as e-books in 13 subject collections. Within STM, Springer is the largest book publisher, and second-largest journal publisher worldwide (the largest being Elsevier), with over 60 publishing houses, around 2,000 journals, 6,500 new books published each year, sales of 880 million euro (in 2008) and more than 5,000 employees. Springer has major offices in Berlin, Heidelberg, Dordrecht (Netherlands) and New York. Julius Springer founded Springer-Verlag in Berlin in 1842. The academic publishing company BertelsmannSpringer was formed after Bertelsmann bought a majority stake in Springer-Verlag in 1999.