1. Sıtkı Aktaş Regional Sales Director Springer Science + Business Media Turkey, Iran & Central Asia Springer in the region and Their Impact on the Scientific Research in the Region

2. Springer History & Products

3. Springer Overview Leading Global STM Publisher, > 2000 Journals, > 7000 new books each year Global Reach of Over 10 Million Largest Open Access Portfolio, >300 Journals 6,000 employees in 25 Countries 1904192119221944196319912002 J.P. Pavlov Medicine Albert Einstein Physics Niels H. de Bohr Physics Otto Hahn Chemistry Sir John Eccles Medicine Bert Sakmann Medicine Kurt Wüthrich Chemistry

4. 4 Around 55 publishing houses in some 25 countries worldwide Australia Austria Brazil China France Germany Great Britain India Italy Japan Malaysia The Netherlands Russia South Korea South Africa Spain Switzerland Taiwan Turkey United Arab Emirates USA

5. Springer Products & Imprints

6. 6 Our publishing brands

8. Leading Publishers: Number of Journals Titles Number of English-Language Journals Published in 2012 (English-language academic/scholarly journals) 2,191 2,056 1,734 1,517 626 304 275 253

9. Leading Publishers: Number of Books Published (Data from www.puballey.com and publisher websites; if a book is published simultaneously in hard- and paperback editions, only the hardback edition was included) 4,734 3,959 2,272 1,308 1,457 1,077 1,578 725 239 Number of English-Language Titles Published in 2011

10. Book Market Positions by Disciplines Discipline#1 Publisher#2 Publisher#3 Publisher Clinical MedicineLippincott W&WElsevier HealthMcGraw-Hill#4/5 Biomedical & Life SciencesWiley-BlackwellElsevier Earth & Environmental ScienceCUPWiley-Blackwell Chemistry & Materials ScienceWiley-BlackwellTaylor & Francis Physics & AstronomyCUPWiley-Blackwell EngineeringWiley-BlackwellTaylor & Francis Computer Science (research-level)IEEEIGI Global Mathematics & StatisticsWiley-BlackwellTaylor & Francis Business & EconomicsTaylor & FrancisPalgrave MacmillanEdwin Elgar#4/5 Social Sciences & Humanities Taylor & FrancisOUPPalgrave Macmillan#8/10

11. Central Asia – Research Output 2000-11 Number of Articles 2000-2011 SCImago. (2007). SJR — SCImago Journal & Country Rank, Retrieved March 22, 2013, from http://www.scimagojr.com

12. RankCountryArticles 2011 Articles 2000 CAGRArticle Share 2011 Article Share 2000 1Azerbaijan73218413.4%0.03%0.02% 2Uzbekistan4984002.0%0.02%0.04% 3Kazakhstan4254116.0%0.02% 4Kyrgyzstan76386.5%0.00% 5Tajikistan70308.0%0.00% 6Turkmenistan29119.2%0.00% Central Asia – Ranking by Research Articles SCImago. (2007). SJR — SCImago Journal & Country Rank, Retrieved March 22, 2013, from http://www.scimagojr.com

13. Central Asia – Research Output Development SCImago. (2007). SJR — SCImago Journal & Country Rank, Retrieved March 22, 2013, from http://www.scimagojr.com

14. Central Asia – Research Output by Disciplines Research Output by Disciplines 2011

15. SpringerLink Total Usage: 2005-12

16. CountryVisits 2012 Azerbaijan 30,338 Uzbekistan 15,201 Kazakhstan 78,388 Kyrgyzstan 7,203 Tajikistan 2,536 Turkmenistan 577 SpringerLink Visits

17. Springer New initiatives

18. Access to Springer content in the region Outstanding and long term relationship Acting on behalf of the universities to ensure that scientific content are widely available to their scientific communities. Has an extensive impact on the level of use of scientific content and enhances scientific research in general

19. Azerbaijan National Deal

20. Develop a program of the very best journals from the region Built a growing book program based on the work of the regions leading scientists – Cooperate with leading institutions – Springer OPEN Books – Co-publish journals, book series – Provide editorial support Author workshops Publishing infrastructure Professional publishing experience Springer‘s publishing initiative

21. Subscription Journals - Iran IF: 3.157IF: 1.189 IF: 1.500 First Issues Published January 2012

22. SpringerOpen Journals - Iran Launched January 2012

23. Partnerships in KSA Journals on Topics of Regional and Strategic Importance IF: 1.141IF: 0.243 2011 20082012 Subscription Journals

24. 2013: Digitize everything “Digitize all journals going forward!” 1996 “Digitize most books going forward!” 2006 2009 “Digitize all books going forward and a lot of books going backward!” “Digitize all journals going backward!” 2004 Journals 1842 Springer-Verlag founded 197,000 articles/yr 5,000 books/yr Books 18701880189019001910192019301940195019601970198019902000 18602010 Springer developments

25. Introducing the Springer Book Archives Project A digitized book archive of historic titles dating back to the 1840s; 100,000+ Springer eBooks are available at SpringerLink; The Springer Book Archives confirms Springer’s commitment to the preservation of valuable scholarly content and the online accessibility thereof.

26. 26 Рахмaт (Source: SCImago. (2007). SJR — SCImago Journal & Country Rank, Retrieved Oct 26th, 2012, from http://www.scimagojr.com) THANK YOU Sıtkı Aktaş