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PPA Information Summit / SLAC / May 2007
Chris Caron, Ph.D.
Senior Publishing Editor
Physics Editorial Department
Springer Heidelberg
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Springer in Short
• Springer Science and Business Media: STM and B2B
• STM encompasses:
– Architecture, Biomedicine/Life Sciences, Clinical and
Professional Medicine, Economics/Statistics, Human Sciences,
Mathematics/Computer Sciences, Physical
Sciences/Engineering (includes geosciences and chemistry)
• Core strategy physical sciences etal.:
– Publish must-have content
• Journals
• Major Reference Works
• Graduate Textbooks
• Monographs
• Occasionally: popular sciences
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Springer in Numbers #1
• some 1850 journals, close to 1600 in STM with just short of
10% of the total scientific paper output worldwide.
– Some 300 journals added in 2006
– About 25% is society content
• Some 5500 new book titles/year
– Since 2004 complete digitization of book content
– Since 2006 consortial-type e-book library packages
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Springer in Numbers #2
• Electronic platform: SpringerLink
– 3.3 million articles/chapters from journals and books
– 475.000 documents added in 2006
• 2/3 from journals (including archives)
• 1/3 from books (including major reference works)
14.481.921
43.277.993
19.345.19924.487.208
28.405.238
05.000.000
10.000.00015.000.00020.000.00025.000.00030.000.00035.000.00040.000.00045.000.00050.000.000
Total 2003 Total 2004 Total 2005 Total 2006 As of 03/07
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Online Publishing Cosmos
Invoicing
Host Client Site with access relevant information
Distribution of electroniccontent (Journals, eBooks,
Reference Works)
Product Classification
Production of electroniccontent in A++ format
Editorial
Production
LocalLoading
ThirdParty
Service
Journals
eBooks
Ref.Works
Order Processing
Authentication
DataLinks
Data
eBooks
Abstracting&
IndexingServices
Publisher
Host
Invoicing
Host Client Site with access relevant information
Distribution of electroniccontent (Journals, eBooks,
Reference Works)
Product Classification
Production of electroniccontent in A++ format
Editorial
Production
LocalLoading
ThirdParty
Service
Journals
eBooks
Ref.Works
Order Processing
Authentication
DataLinks
Data
eBooks
Abstracting&
IndexingServices
Publisher
Host
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Springer – Physics Journals
• The European Physical Journal (EPJ), A-E, ST
• General Relativity and Gravitation
• Foundations of Physics
• Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics (JETP)
• Astronomy and Astrophysics Reviews
• Communications in Mathematical Physics
• Few-Body Systems
• International Journal of Theoretical Physics
• Journal of Statistical Physics
• Physics of Particles and Nuclei
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The European Physical Journal (EPJ)
• EPJ A – Hadrons and Nuclei
• EPJ B – Cond. Mat. and Complex Systems
• EPJ C – Particles and Fields
• EPJ D – Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics
• EPJ E – Soft Matter
• EPJ ST – Special Topics (new)
• Structure of A and C adapted to the needs of a relatively small, well networked (e.g. through SPIRES) and special community (large collaborations):
– Letters, Regular Articles, „Tools“ and Scientific Notes, Reviews
– OA models