<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px; ">I am not a library serials budget specialist, but it seems to me reasonable to ask (especially in view of the OUP press release about decline in the uptake of this option) (1) what was the percentage uptake and (2) what was the resulting percentage reduction?</span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;">Stevan</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font><div><div>On 2010-06-18, at 12:07 PM, Peter Suber wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">[Forwarding from Springer. --Peter Suber.]<br></font><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="DE" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">PRESS
RELEASE</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Springer <span style="color:#262626">Open Choice
uptake affects 2011 journal pricing</span></span></b></p><p style="margin-right:7.05pt;line-height:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">Heidelberg /
Dordrecht / New York / London, 18 June 2010</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:7.05pt;line-height:14.0pt"><span style="color:rgb(38, 38, 38)">Springer has analyzed the
uptake of its open access option Open Choice for articles published in 2009 and
is pleased to share its impact on 2011 pricing.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:7.05pt;line-height:14.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#262626">Springer Open Choice allows
authors to publish their article with open access in exchange for payment of a
fee, for the majority of its journals. The </span><span lang="EN-US">articles
are then immediately freely available and the copyright remains with the
author, and articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution
Non-Commercial License. These articles can be self-archived with
immediate access.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:7.05pt;line-height:14.0pt">A detailed analysis of the Open Choice articles
published in 2009 showed that over 30 journals published a significant share of
paid open access articles in 2009. Thi<span style="color:#262626">s will
be reflected in these journals’ 2011 subscription prices.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:7.05pt;line-height:14.0pt">Wim van der Stelt, EVP Business Development at
Springer, says: “We have always said that we would monitor the
uptake of the Open Choice offering closely. In 2010, we already adjusted
subscription prices for a small group of journals and the group of journals
with a significant number of paid Open Choice articles has grown further.
We are therefore pleased to reflect this in the 2011 pricing. We believe
that this emphasizes the constructive attitude of Springer towards open access,
which we have shown previously by pioneering Open Choice in 2004 and acquiring
BioMed Central in 2008.”</p><div style="margin-right: 7.05pt; line-height: 14pt; "><span lang="EN-US"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Springer Science+Business Media</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> (</span><a href="http://www.springer.com/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">www.springer.com</span></a><span lang="EN-US">) is a leading global scientific publisher, delivering quality
content through innovative information products and services. The company
is also a trusted provider of local-language professional publications in
Europe, especially in Germany and the Netherlands. In the science,
technology and medicine (STM) sector, the group publishes around 2,000 journals
and more than 6,500 new books a year, as well as the largest STM eBook
Collection worldwide. Springer has operations in about 20 countries in
Europe, the USA, and Asia, and more than 5,000 employees. In 2009, it
generated annual sales of around EUR 857 million.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p style="line-height:12.0pt"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt;text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-US">Contact:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> <br>
</span><span lang="EN-GB">Eric Merkel-Sobotta | Springer Science+Business Media |
+49 30 82 787 5431 |</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt;text-autospace:none"><a href="mailto:eric.merkel-sobotta@springer.com" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">eric.merkel-sobotta@springer.com</span></a><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt;text-autospace:none"><br></p></div></div></div>
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