1. springeronline.com PPA Information Summit / SLAC / May 2007 Chris Caron, Ph.D. Senior Publishing Editor Physics Editorial Department Springer Heidelberg

2. SLAC-PPA-info-Summit / May 2007 / C Caron2 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

3. SLAC-PPA-info-Summit / May 2007 / C Caron3 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

4. SLAC-PPA-info-Summit / May 2007 / C Caron4 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 19.345.199 24.487.208 28.405.238 0 5.000.000 10.000.000 15.000.000 20.000.000 25.000.000 30.000.000 35.000.000 40.000.000 45.000.000 50.000.000 Total 2003Total 2004Total 2005Total 2006As of 03/07

5. SLAC-PPA-info-Summit / May 2007 / C Caron5 Online Publishing Cosmos

6. SLAC-PPA-info-Summit / May 2007 / C Caron6 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

7. SLAC-PPA-info-Summit / May 2007 / C Caron7 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