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Springer’s Menu of Open Access Flavors

Ye Lu

Editorial Director, China

Springer Science + Business Media

18 October 2011 · Chongqing

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Source : DOAJ, July 10, 2011

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2,838 OA journals (English journals only) published a total of 116,883 articles

About 10% of scholarly articles/year are published in OA journals

Survey shows 90% of scholars think OA is beneficial

Stronger presence of OA publishing in STM fields (75% of published OA articles are in STM)

The Landscape of Open Access Publishing Today SOAP Symposium, Berlin, Jan.13th, 2011

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• Springer is neutral on Open Access

• Open Access is an additional publishing

option for research communities

• Springer is the market leader in Open

Access publishing

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Open Access flavors at Springer

Hybrid Open Access Fully Open AccessAuthors’ Rights

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Springer is a green publisher

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Open Access flavors at Springer

Hybrid Open Access Fully Open AccessAuthors’ Rights

• Self-archiving of

author’s accepted

version

• Deposit into PubMed

Central

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Open access at Springer truly is open access: free, immediate, permanent online access to the full text of research articles for anyone, webwide.

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Open access at Springer truly is open access

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Springer pioneered the hybrid journal

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Price adjustments for selected hybrid journals

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Open Access flavors at Springer

Hybrid Open Access

• Open Access option

in majority of

Springer titles

• Open Choice for

individual authors:

Article fee

€ 2000/ USD 3000

Fully Open AccessAuthors’ Rights

• Self-archiving of

author’s accepted

version

• Deposit into PubMed

Central

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“Springer is now

the world’s largest

open access

publisher” Peter Suber in October 2008

Acquisition of BioMed Central in 2008

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How does BMC contribute to Chinese Scientific Community

• Co-publish 4 journals with top Chinese institutes and scientists in

the fields, more to expected; published about 3000 articles in since

2008, with an annual growth rate of 50%

• Organize 20-30 author workshops every year in universities,

research institutes and hospitals

• Cooperate with Chinese universities, research institutes and

pharmaceutical  companies to support more authors submitting

articles to Open Access Journals by establishing institutional

membership program (e.g. Chinese Academy of Sciences)

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•New suite of open access journals which will cover all disciplines

•All articles are fully and immediately open access (copyright authors, Creative

Commons Attribution license)

• No subscriptions,

article processing fees instead (800 – 1,250 EUR)

–Paid by the author (via research grant, library, institutional OA fund, …)

–Paid by a member institution

–Waivers (economic hardship; Invitation waivers for EICs)

What is ?

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Journals open for submission reached 50 in June 2011, out of the 50 SpringerOpen journals, 12 already have Impact Factors

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Homepage Features

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Open Access flavors at Springer

Hybrid Open Access

• Open Access option

in majority of

Springer titles

• Open Choice for

individual authors:

Article fee

€ 2000/ USD $ 3000

Fully Open Access

•

•

Authors’ Rights

• Self-archiving of

author’s accepted

version

• Deposit into PubMed

Central

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Story of Success with Springer Open Access

The non-OA journal is also a new launch journal of Chinese Library of Science in 2008.

The usage sources is from

Note:

1. Articles Qty: Nano Research is 29; The non-OA journal is 25.

2. Subject Area: Nano Research is in Materials; The non-OA journal is in Engineering.

• Jointly publish with Tsinghua University Press

• Indexed by SCI 18 months after launching

• 2009 IF: 4.37

• 2010 IF: 5.071

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Chinese Science Bulletin

Science China Life Sciences

Photonic Sensors

Natural Products & Prospecting

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science

OA journals in Chinese Library of Science

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Lu Ye

Editorial Director, China

Tel.: 010-8267 0211 ext.808

Email: lu.ye@springer.com

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