<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">[Forwarding from Springer. --Peter Suber.]</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font><div class="gmail_quote">
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><b></b></font></span><span lang="en-us"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><b></b></font></span><span lang="en-us"><b><font color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">PRESS RELEASE</font></font></b></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span></font></p>
<p dir="LTR"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="en-us"></span></font><span lang="en-us"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><b></b></font></span><span lang="en-us"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Springer introduces new open access journals </font></b></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">SpringerOpen titles will cover all disciplines</font></b></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="en-us"></span></font><span lang="en-us"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Berlin / New York / London, 28 June 2010</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><b></b></font></span><span lang="en-us"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> </font></b></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="de"></span></font><span lang="en-us"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Springer is expanding its open access offering to all disciplines. SpringerOpen (</font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="de"></span></font><a href="http://www.springeropen.com" target="_blank"><span lang="de"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><u></u></font></span><u><span lang="en-us"><font color="#0000FF"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">www.springeropen.com</font></font></span></u><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="de"></span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="de"></span></font><span lang="en-us"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">) will cover all disciplines</font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="de"></span></font><span lang="en-us"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> within the science, technology and medi</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">cine (STM) fields and will be offered in cooperation with BioMed Central</font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="de"></span></font><span lang="en-us"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">. The entire content of SpringerOpen journals </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">–</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> including research articles, reviews, and editorials</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">–</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> are fully and immediately open access, and are accessible to anyone with an int</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">ernet connection. No subscription is needed. </font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="de"></span></font><span lang="en-us"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> “We are seeing an increasing interest from our authors and from funders in all areas for open access publishing options and have responded to a need in the current market,” said Wim van der Stelt, EVP Busine</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">ss Development, Springer. “We are happy to serve our authors and editorial boards with the publishing options they want and are also pleased to supply universities, research institutions and our other patrons with the ability to use this content online f</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">r</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">eely and conveniently.”</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="de"></span></font><span lang="en-us"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">SpringerOpen journals are e-only journals. Springer is committed to delivering high-quality articles and ensuring rapid publication as with its traditional journals, from online submission systems and in-depth peer review to an ef</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">ficient, author-friendly production process. The final articles are not only published in a timely manner on Springer</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">’</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">s online information platform SpringerLink, but are also distributed to archives such as PubMed Central and to institutional repositorie</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">s</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> as requested.</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">SpringerOpen journals are published under the Creative Commons Attribution license, which facilitates the open distribution of copyrighted work. According to this license, Springer will not reserve any exclusive commercial rights. </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="de"></span></font><span lang="en-us"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">The jou</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">rnals ask the authors to pay an article-processing charge, in accordance with market standards.</font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="de"></span><span lang="en-us"></span></font></p>
<p dir="LTR"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="de"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span></font></p>
<p dir="LTR"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="de"></span></font><span lang="en-us"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">BioMed Central, acquired in 2008 by Springer, will provide its expertise and technology to help establish the SpringerOpen portfolio. </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="de"></span></font><span lang="en-us"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">SpringerOpen journals will publish in emerging and interdisciplinary fields and will complement both the established Springer journal portfolios and BioMed Central</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">’</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">s growing list of over 200 life science and biomedicine journal titles.</font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="de"></span></font><span lang="en-us"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> Furthermore, in ord</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">er to reduce the financial burden faced by individual authors, Springer and BioMed Central are collaborating to extend BioMed Central</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">’</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">s Open Access Membership scheme, offered to</font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="de"></span></font><span lang="en-us"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">institutions, societies, groups, funders and corporations, to include the Spri</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">ngerOpen titles. M</font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="de"></span></font><span lang="en-us"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">ore than 300 institutional open access membership arrangements are currently in place.</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="de"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><b></b></font></span><b><span lang="en-us"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Springer Science+Business Media</font></span></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="de"></span></font><span lang="en-us"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> (</font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="de"></span></font><a href="http://www.springer.com" target="_blank"><span lang="de"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><u></u></font></span><u><span lang="en-us"><font color="#0000FF"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">www.springer.com</font></font></span></u><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="de"></span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="de"></span></font><span lang="en-us"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">)</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> is a leading global scientific publ</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">isher, 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 a</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">n</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">d 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</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> employees. </font></span></p>
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