Springer’s Menu of Open Access Flavors Ye Lu Editorial Director, China Springer Science + Business Media 18 October 2011 · Chongqing

Springer‘s Open Access Flavors2 Source : DOAJ, July 10, 2011

Springer‘s Open Access Flavors3  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.13 th, 2011

Springer‘s Open Access Flavors4 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

Springer‘s Open Access Flavors5 Open Access flavors at Springer Hybrid Open AccessFully Open AccessAuthors’ Rights

Springer‘s Open Access Flavors6 Springer is a green publisher

Springer‘s Open Access Flavors7 Open Access flavors at Springer Hybrid Open AccessFully Open AccessAuthors’ Rights Self-archiving of author’s accepted version Deposit into PubMed Central

Springer‘s Open Access Flavors8 Open access at Springer truly is open access: free, immediate, permanent online access to the full text of research articles for anyone, webwide.

Springer‘s Open Access Flavors9 Open access at Springer truly is open access

Springer‘s Open Access Flavors10 Springer pioneered the hybrid journal

Springer‘s Open Access Flavors11 Price adjustments for selected hybrid journals

Springer‘s Open Access Flavors12 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

Springer‘s Open Access Flavors13 “Springer is now the world’s largest open access publisher” Peter Suber in October 2008 Acquisition of BioMed Central in 2008

Springer‘s Open Access Flavors14 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 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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Springer‘s Open Access Flavors16 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 ?

Springer‘s Open Access Flavors17 Journals open for submission reached 50 in June 2011, out of the 50 SpringerOpen journals, 12 already have Impact Factors

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Springer‘s Open Access Flavors21 Homepage Features

Springer‘s Open Access Flavors22 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

Springer‘s Open Access Flavors23 Story of Success with Springer Open Access The non-OA journal is also a new launch journal of Chinese Library of Science in The usage sources is from Note: 1.Articles Qty: Nano Research is 29; The non-OA journal is 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: IF: 5.071

Springer‘s Open Access Flavors24 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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Springer‘s Open Access Flavors26 Lu Ye Editorial Director, China Tel.: ext

Springer‘s Open Access Flavors27 Diane Wang 王丹青 Tel ： Fax: Joyce Li 李娴 ( 期刊合作 ) Tel: Fax: BioMed Central Contacts