[BOAI] Versita Open in Scandinavia - press release

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from Versita.  --Peter Suber.]

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*Versita Open Expands to Scandinavia*

*First Scandinavian Journals Join Versita Open*****


Warsaw, 30th of June 2011****

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For 10 years Versita has been a successful publisher of own and third-party
scholarly journals from Central & Eastern Europe. Professional e-publishing
technology solutions and e-marketing services provided to journals published
by universities and academic institutions recently attracted also customers
from outside the region. Three Scandinavian serials: *Nordic Studies on
Alcohol and Drugs, Nordic Journal of Migration Research* and
*Sommerfeltia*are now included in the portfolio of more than 200 Open
Access journals
published by Versita Open. ****

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The newly contracted Scandinavian journals, besides the basic pack of
services, have also selected optional functionalities such as online
submission system (Editorial Manager), copyediting, language and technical
editing. With the professional support from Versita, journals that make
their content available for readers at no cost can enjoy the same
sophisticated online publishing technology and powerful marketing tools used
by paid-access journals of large international publishers, and can compete
with them in terms of impact. ****

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Kerstin Stenius, Editor-in-Chief of *Nordic Studies on Alcohol and
Drugs*(NAD) comments: “As most other scientific journals, we have
lately noted the
increased demand on researchers to publish scientific articles, but also
increasing competition between journals over the most interesting and
ground-breaking findings. We look forward to the professional assistance of
Versita in getting a higher scientific impact by being included in even more
prestigious indexing systems. Open Access through Versita gives NAD the
possibility to reach out with new scientific findings through the internet,
which has become the most important source of information for most
citizens”.****

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Dawid Cecula, Business Manager of Versita Open, comments: “Expanding our
portfolio with publications from Northern Europe is a signal for us that a
need for professional publishing services in the Open Access area is also
shared by countries from outside the region. For this reason, we have
decided to expand beyond Central and Eastern Europe and enter Scandinavia,
which will help us even better fulfill our mission of global dissemination
of scientific research.”****

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*About Versita
Versita* (www.versita.com) publishes over 200 own and third-party scholarly
journals across many disciplines. Versita is the publishing partner of
Springer (www.springer.com) and de Gruyter (www.degruyter.com). Versita also
runs Versita Open (www.versitaopen.com), one of the largest Open Access
platforms in the world. The company was established in 2001 by Jacek
Ciesielski.****

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*About Open Access
*Open Access (OA) is an emerging model for academic publishing where readers
receive free access to scientific journals and books. In typical OA models,
the publishing costs are paid by authors. The first OA advocates were
librarians, and recently several publishers have introduced their OA
offerings. ****

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