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On STM Publishing Model

Springer Open Choice

Maurice Kwong

Springer Science and Business Media

STM Division

CONCERT, November 11, 2004, Taipei

CONCERT 2004

Springer Science + Business Media

Total consolidated sales in fiscal year 2003: € 833 million

12%B2B Transport

10%B2B Construction

9%Sturtz

6%B2B ProfessionalMedicine7%

B2B ProfessionalBusiness & Technology

56%STM – Science,

TechnologyMedicine (incl. KAP)

Sales Split 2003 by business divisions Sales Split 2003 by region

7%Asia

21%North America

1%Rest of the world

24%Rest of Europe3%

Central andEastern Europe

44%Germany

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Product & Project Overview

• Over 5,000 employees working in 80 companies worldwide

• 1,400 journals and 5,000 new books published each year

• SpringerLink hosts over 600,000 journal articles,

and over 65,000 book chapters

• Springer is investing heavily in new products:

– Digitization of over 1.5 million articles - 12 million pages of

backfiles

– Nearly all new books to be published will have their electronic

versions

• Springer is taking the lead in providing author-centric services:

– Online editorial and production process management for journals

– Springer Open Choice

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Libraries know about, and support, Open Access

• Over 90% of surveyed libraries are familiar with Open Access

• 90% of those who are familiar support Open Access as a medium for content in the future

• There is a large discrepancy in support of Open Access between librarians (90%) and authors (25%).

Source: Internal Report commissioned by Bain & Co., Mar. 2004

Unfamiliar

Familiar

Negative

Mostlypositive

Strongsupport

OAfamiliarity

Support of OA model

0

20

40

60

80

100%

Percent of OA-aware librarians

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0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

nothing a little quite a lot a lot

However, authors know little about OA and are not willing to pay

Source: CIBER Report: What Do Authors Really Want, Nature, May 2004

Author knowledge of Open Access

(n=3,787)

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

Author willingness to pay for Open Access

(n=3,787)

Only 1 in 20 authors feels adequately

informed about Open Access

Almost half of all authors would not pay anything for Open Access.

The average

an author would pay is $247.

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What is Springer Open Choice?

Springer Open Choice is a new service

which enables authors to make their

articles freely available through almost all

Springer journals

Open Choice Order Form

Display on SpringerLinkFeatures of Open Choice• Same quality peer review and production

• Articles also included in print editions

• Full abstracting, indexing, and reference

linking functionality of SpringerLink

• One-time publication fee of $3,000 USD

• Subscription prices will be adjusted

accordingly

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Journal Publishing ProcessJournal Publishing Process

When is the Choice Made ?

ResearchResearchResultsResults

Submission Submission to Journal to Journal

EditorsEditors

PeerPeerReviewReview

AcceptedAcceptedby Editorsby Editors

PublicationPublicationProcessProcess

Access & Access & SubscriptionSubscription

SalesSales

ResearchResearchResultsResults

Submissions Submissions To JournalTo Journal

EditorsEditors

PeerPeerReviewReview

AcceptedAcceptedby Editorsby Editors

Open ChoiceOpen ChoiceDecisionDecision

By AuthorsBy Authors

Access & Print Access & Print Subscription Subscription

DeliveryDelivery

PublicationPublicationProcessProcess

CONCERT 2004

What is Springer Open Choice?

Springer Open Choice is a new service

which enables authors to make their

articles freely available through almost all

Springer journals

Open Choice Order Form

Display on SpringerLinkFeatures of Open Choice• Same quality peer review and production

• Articles also included in print editions

• Full abstracting, indexing, and reference

linking functionality of SpringerLink

• One-time publication fee of $3,000 USD

• Subscription prices will be adjusted

accordingly

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Copyright and Self-Archiving

• Springer supports author self-archiving

policy:– Authors are allowed to post their articles on pre-print servers

– Authors are allowed to post their own version on their personal

website or in their institution’s online repository, with a link to the

publisher’s version

• Springer offers unlimited access in two ways:– Author self-archiving

– Springer Open Choice

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Springer‘s Open ChoiceTM

Is Open Choice = Open Access ?

• Open Access : Choice of where to submit

• Open Choice : free submission vs free access

• Open Choice : Quality assurance guaranteed

• Open Choice Journals offers additional contents in print

free of charge to current subscribers.

• Open Choice offers fair publishing opportunities worldwide

• Springer‘s Open Choice offers copyright protection as in

traditional subscription based publishing.

Open Choice is more than just Open Access

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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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The issue is the business model

• Copyright and the journal not the issue

• Who pays for publishing is the issue

• Let’s take a practical look, experiment

Springer is neutral.

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Your research. Your choice.