Transcript The Springer Open Choice Program

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Springer Open Choice
Maurice Kwong
Springer Science and Business Media
STM Division
CONCERT, November 11, 2004, Taipei
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• 1,400 journals and 5,000 new books published each year
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and over 65,000 book chapters
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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
Percent of OA-aware librarians
100%
Unfamiliar
Negative
80
Mostly
positive
60
40
are familiar with Open Access
• 90% of those who are familiar
support Open Access as a
medium for content in the future
Familiar
• There is a large discrepancy in
Strong
support
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• Over 90% of surveyed libraries
OA
familiarity
support of Open Access between
librarians (90%) and authors
(25%).
Support of
OA model
Source: Internal Report commissioned by Bain & Co., Mar. 2004
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However, authors know little about OA
and are not willing to pay
Almost half of all authors would not pay
Only 1 in 20 authors feels adequately
anything for Open Access. The average
informed about Open Access
an author would pay is $247.
Author knowledge of Open Access
(n=3,787)
Author willingness to pay for Open Access
(n=3,787)
60%
60%
50%
50%
40%
40%
30%
30%
20%
20%
10%
10%
0%
0%
nothing
a little
quite a lot
a lot
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What is Springer Open Choice?
Open Choice Order Form
Springer Open Choice is a new service
which enables authors to make their
articles freely available through almost all
Springer journals
Display on SpringerLink
Features 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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When is the Choice Made ?
Research
Results
Submission
to Journal
Editors
Peer
Review
Accepted
by Editors
Publication
Process
Access &
Subscription
Sales
Publication
Process
Access & Print
Subscription
Delivery
Journal Publishing Process
Research
Results
Submissions
To Journal
Editors
Peer
Review
Accepted
by Editors
Open Choice
Decision
By Authors
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What is Springer Open Choice?
Open Choice Order Form
Springer Open Choice is a new service
which enables authors to make their
articles freely available through almost all
Springer journals
Display on SpringerLink
Features 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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