springer com Introduction to Springer Link Workshop Dr

springer. com Introduction to Springer. Link Workshop Dr Frans Lettenstrom Director, Library Sales Tomsk – 30 June 2014

Scientific Publishing • • Original reports of data/theory Assert priority Correspondence between scientists Paper making technology (China 105) Movable-type printing (China 1040) ”Gutenberg” printing technology (Korea <1403) Silver & gold from America (1492 -) The two first scientific journals (1665) – Philosophical Transactions (London) – Journal des Savants (Paris)

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Scientific Publishing • • Acceleration around 1760 • • • 50. 000 scientific books/year, by 1. 000 publishers Since then: doubling every 15 -20 years (Springer 1842. Politics, agriculture, mathematics) 1880: articles often 200 -300 pages 1920: research split up in many short articles Now over 180. 000 journals/report series Approx 20. 000 peer reviewed 1. 8 M peer reviewed articles/year, by 2. 000 publishers, read by over 15 M scientists 1969 – Internet 1989 – WWW 1991 – ar. Xiv at LANL (Springer. LINK journals 1997 & ebooks 2006)

Increased competition 1400 1200 1000 800 Journal numbers % 600 400 200 0 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 Relative submission growth from 100% baseline in 1990 Year

Springer is now the World´s largest publisher (140. 000+ Ebooks and 200+ Encyclopedias missing in Tomsk) e. Journals: Over 2, 400 titles (bf since 1832) e. Books: Over 8, 500 new titles per year, in total over 160, 000 (bf since 1842) Databases: Springer Protocols Springer Images zb. MATH Springer Materials Springer. Reference Locations: 60 publishing houses in 27 countries throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, America & Oceania

Springer has many offices Argentina / Australia / Austria / Brazil / China / France / Germany / India / Italy / Japan / Malaysia / Mexico / Morocco / The Netherlands / New Zealand / Philippines / Russia / Singapore / South Africa / South Korea / Spain / Switzerland / Taiwan / Turkey / United Arab Emirates / United Kingdom / USA

And many publishing brands

Leading Publishers: Number of Journals Titles

Leading Publishers: Number of Books Published

Leading e. Books Publishers: Total Number of e. Books Number of English-Language e. Books Available (as of Jan 2014) (Data from publisher websites; estimates for Informa)

Global User Base of Academic / Scholarly Information “One needs to read books, before one can understand (scientific) journals”

Reading helps academic creativity Both sides of the brain are essential and work in harmony Logic Creativity Reading Writing Similarly, reading and writing are connected

How many centuries does Springer‘s scientific digital information last? • 1) Archival rights – Continued access on our server – Data delivery (disks, ftp) • • 2) National servers - CILEA, RFBR, etc 3) Long-range archiving with German National Library and Royal Library of the Netherlands • 4) Other projects: ü LOCKSS & CLOCKSS (controlled LOCKSS, lots of copies keeps stuff safe) (Stanford) – Springer‘s own formats ü Portico (Jstor) – Jstor‘s formats

Quality and tradition Nobel Prize winners are also Springer authors

Journal publishing has changed • • • from print on paper to ‘print’ on line from individual libraries to consortia from subscriptions to licences from individual titles to collections from journal to article

Expectations are also changing • • from selection to comprehensiveness from print to electronic from textual to multi-media from fast to immediate from browsing to searching from dissemination to formalization from reading to mining

Paleontology as Metaphor Thanks to Jan Velterop

. . . for Scientific Publishing Thanks to Jan Velterop magazines open access journals review jnls society jnls commercial Inter -net subscription journals correspondence between scientists 2000’ s 1900’ s 1800’ s 1700’ s 1600’ s

Darwin: Not the strongest survive; not the most intelligent; not even the most adaptable; but those not mis-adapted.

How to survive?

Epository Rights (Green OA) • • Institutional / National (r)epositories / Pubmed Central Preprint / Eprint manuscript Upgraded to postprint version, after the peer review Do not use publisher pdf 12 months embargo Persistent link to the publisher pdf is compulsory “The final publication is available at link. springer. com”

Gold OA at Springer • Biomed Central / Springer. Open – 200 journals (here is the growth, expecting 200 new journals in the coming years) (800 – 1, 250 EUR per article and author) • Open. Choice – 2200 journals (2, 000 EUR per article and author) • SCOAP 3 – 3 journals (10, 000 EUR for 5. 35 journals all authors world-wide)

439 OA members in 50 countries

SCOAP 3 - by country (10 Meur) – 12 journ • • Fair-share: contribute as per peer-review usage J. Krause et al. CERN-OPEN-2007 -014

Growth of OA publishing 10, 748 journals in eigenfacror. org 1 M articles

And now I leave the floor to Matthias • Hoping for a strong partnership between Springer and Tomsk! Dr Frans Lettenstrom frans. lettenstrom@springer. com