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Commercial Scholarly publishing

In the world of open access

Derk Haank Edinburgh

CEO Springer 11 April 2005

Science+ business media

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The combination of Commercial & Science

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New Springer = New Policies

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What ‘current’ situation

are we trying to improve?

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Much has been achieved with Electronic publishing

- Technology matured

- More access

- Usage exploded

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Variety of business models

(From document delivery to big deal)

Database Licensing model now dominant

Increasingly value based (differential pricing)

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Alternative business model

Author pays(e.g. Open access)

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Author pays/open access is now possible

because of the cost structure of electronic

publishing.

- High (fixed) infrastructure costs

- Low marginal distribution costs

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Springer introduced Open Choice

• New service within established branded environment

• Authors can opt to pay for unrestricted online availability

• Available for all Springer journals

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Why Open Choice?

• Authors are our partners, and the current environment may require

them to have this option

• Springer is open to new ideas and business models

• Springer is neutral to whether the subscribers or the authors pay

for the costs of publishing

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Open choice articles are treated no differently

• Must pass the usual peer review process first

• Receive all services and features normally provided

• Appear in both the print and the online editions of our journals

• Same copyright protection policy

• Green self-archiving policy

– All articles allowed to be posted on author and institutional

website’s

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Costs

• The price for Open Choice is $3,000 per accepted article

• Covers paper and electronic

• Subscription income to continue to pay for non- open choice

articles

• Journal prices to be adjusted annually for percentage of articles

paid for by authors

• Price reflects full costs for paper and electronic without subsidies

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Obstacles to open access

• Massive change in budgets

– Within institutions

– Between institutions

• Inequalities during the transition

– Paying twice

– Free Riders

• Creates new problems; not just solutions

• “Current” situation improves with more and more access

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Possible end picture?

• Open Access for some authors/ research foundations with a

specific need or interest

• For others: Combination of unlimited access through database

licenses in combination with author websites

and

institutional repositories