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The Open University, 1st November 2013
Open Access Publishing: the publishers’ perspective
Alex Christoforou
Head of Customer Services and Membership
The many facets of Open Access Publishing
‘Full’ Open Access
• Whole journal is published Open Access
‘Green’ Open Access
• Self-archiving of author manuscript on author website, institutional or subject-based repositories
‘Gold’ Open Access
• Article freely available from publisher website
‘Hybrid’ Open Access
• Article level Open Access option in subscription journals
‘Delayed’ Open Access
• Articles made freely available to non-subscribers after a certain period, usually 12 or 24 months
Author Payment
• Author/funder/institution pays for publishing
Sponsored
• Journal sponsored by a non-profit institution or organization
Publisher is paid for the service of publication instead of selling access to content
BioMed Central - The Open Access Publisher
Launched 1999
Publisher of over 250 open access journals
All journals are fully peer-reviewed with international Editorial Boards
Journals in all areas of life sciences, medicine and chemistry
Over 51,000 manuscripts submitted to BioMed Central journals in 2012
Overview of open access Changing landscape of open access publishing
2000 2013
And many more…
Impact Factor journals: Open Access market share
Subscription Journals
90%
‘Full’ OA Journals: Au-
thor Pays7%
‘Full’ OA Journals:
Sponsored3%
Number of Articles in Journal Citation Reports 2012
Subscription journals include:
• ‘Hybrid’ Journals (OA articles: 1% of all articles)
• ‘Delayed’ OA Journals (6% of all articles)
Sources: Journal Citation Reports 2012;DOAJ; Laakso and Björk: Anatomy of open access publishing: a study oflongitudinal development and internal structure, BMC Medicine 2012
Interesting New Journals (all OA)
eLife
- Highly selective journal backed by HHMI, Max Planck Society and Wellcome Trust- Reviewing editors lead online discussions resulting in a single concise set of instructions for revisions
F1000 Research- All articles are published within days following an in-house check for obvious inappropriateness- Peer review takes place immediately after publication; reviews and reviewers’ identities are published alongside articles
PeerJ- Authors pay to become members (starting at $99) instead of paying APCs- Must commit to providing at least 1 review each year
A busy year for open access
Open access policies around the world
302 mandates
• 81 Funder Mandates
• 177 Institutional
• 29 Sub-institutional
• 5 Multi-institutional
2,841 repositories worldwide containing 26,498,237 items
How are BioMed Central and Springer keeping up?
BioMed Central: The Journals
148 of 257
journals now
have Impact
Factors
Springer‘s portfolio of peer-reviewed, fully open access journals and books across all areas of science, technology, medicine,
the humanities and social sciences!
Visit springeropen.com or follow @SpringerOpen on
Ranging from specialized titles to SpringerPlus
More than 20 open access books
17 journals with a 2012 Impact Factor
Over 150 open access journals
Launched in June 2010
SpringerOpen journals in subject fields (Sept 2013)
SpringerOpen – Now including Books!
All SpringerOpen book chapters are fully open access (copyright remains with the authors/editors; Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license)
OA charge is calculated individually, based on the numbers of pages per book
SpringerOpen books authors/editors affiliated to a Member Institute are entitled to a 15% loyalty discount
Springer Open Choice
New mobile formats
Mobile friendly design of journals and articles
• Device-specific formatting for smart phone or tablet users
• Mobile-optimised figure presentation, content navigation and search
• Articles can be saved to read offline and used by apps such as iBooks,
Dropbox and Papers
Mobile formats
Platform independent technology:
Articles published in BioMed Central and SpringerOpen journals are available in the
ePUB format which is compatible with all e-readers
(Kindle, iPAD, Nook etc)
Visibility
Visibility
Visibility for our authors
BioMed Central & SpringerOpen website statistics•Over 25 million page views a month
•More than 7 million user sessions per month
•Over 1.5 million registered users
•Over 420,000 recipients to BioMed Central and SpringerOpen newsletters
SpringerLink - the world’s most complete online collection of STM content•Over 20 million page views a month
•More than 12 million user sessions per month
Altmetrics
Researchers find articles … somehowsave them … somewhere
annotate them … in some wayshare them … sometimes
get back to them … if they can find again eventually cite them … and then often reformat the citation
Membership Program• Prepay Members – 162
• Shared Support Members – 26
• Supporter Members – 257
• Foundation Membership – 22
Administrations tools
• Tracking
• Accountability
• Easy management
• Flexibility
Institutional Repository
(DSpace/Eprints etc.)
Manuscript
SWORD Import
SWORD Export
Published articles
from institution’s
authors
Published article
Automated Article Feeds
• Books (SpringerOpen)
• Wellcome policy
It‘s not just about journals…
Cases
Trials
Data
Images
Books
• Open access publishing is growing globally
• Funding for Open Access is being put in place all over the world
• Open access publishers provide an improved service
─Visibility and impact
─Distribution
─Accessibility
• Future: to support science as it develops
─Data sharing
─Reproducibility
Summary
Thank You
Alex Christoforou
Head of Customer Service and Membership
+44 (0) 203 192 2106
Q & A