<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">[Forwarding from Renate Bayaz at Springer. --Peter Suber.]<br></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font><div class="gmail_quote">
<div lang="DE" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:12.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">PRESS RELEASE</font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Springer and
Helmholtz Association sign agreement for open access membership</font></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Cooperation
makes open access publishing easier for scientists</font></span></b></p>
<p style="line-height:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Berlin / New York / London, 23 August 2010</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Following the launch of SpringerOpen (</font><a href="http://www.springeropen.com" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">www.springeropen.com</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">), the
Helmholtz Association has signed a new agreement for an open access membership.
This agreement covers article processing charges for authors from the
participating Helmholtz research centres for articles published in SpringerOpen
and BioMed Central journals. </font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">SpringerOpen journals are peer-reviewed open access journals in
emerging and interdisciplinary fields that complement both the established
Springer journal portfolios and BioMed Central’s growing list of over 200 life
science and biomedicine journal titles. SpringerOpen journals are e-only and
publish articles under the Creative Commons Attribution license. According to
this license, Springer will not reserve any exclusive commercial rights. </font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Both SpringerOpen as well as Biomed Central journals charge article
processing fees to the author which make the journals’ content immediately and
freely available. The membership offering, introduced by BioMed Central, allows
institutions to directly support the payment of these fees and facilitate the
uptake of open access across their authors. Currently, authors from more than
340 institutions in 39 countries benefit from these memberships taking on full
or partial payment of article processing fees.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">“We feel that the Springer open access journal portfolio is a good
match for the spectrum of the six main Helmholtz research areas (Energy, Earth
and Environment, Health, Key Technologies, Structure of Matter, and
Aeronautics, Space and Transport). We are pleased to enter into this
partnership opening new chances to develop an open access forum for research
results of our scientists. The agreement is part of our mission to establish
long-term mechanisms securing reasonable publication charges for open access
journals,” says</font><span style="color:red"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Dr. Bernhard Mittermaier, Head
of the Central Library of Forschungszentrum Jülich.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">“We are delighted to see that the Helmholtz Association expresses
its support for SpringerOpen. SpringerOpen expands the option to publish in
fully open access journals to all scientific areas and it is encouraging to see
the scientific community reacting so quickly,” says Bettina Goerner, Manager
Open Access at Springer. </font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">The </font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Helmholtz Association</font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> (</font></span><a href="http://www.helmholtz.de/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">www.helmholtz.de</font></span></a><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">) contributes to solving major challenges facing society, science
and industry with top scientific achievements in six research areas: Energy,
Earth and Environment, Health, Key Technologies, Structure of Matter, and
Aeronautics, Space and Transport. With 30,000 employees in 16 research centres
and an annual budget of approximately 3 billion euros, the Helmholtz
Association is Germany’s largest scientific organisation. The Helmholtz
Association was one of the initial signatories of the Berlin Declaration on
Open Access in 2003.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Springer Science+Business Media</font></span></b><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> (</font></span><a href="http://www.springer.com" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">www.springer.com</font></span></a><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">) 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. <br><br></font>
<b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">BioMed Central</font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> (</font></span><a><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">www.biomedcentral.com</font></span></a><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">) </font><span style="color:black"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">has</font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> been part of Springer Science+Business Media
since 2008. Founded in 1999, the STM publisher has pioneered the open access
publishing model. All peer-reviewed research articles published by BioMed
Central are made immediately and freely accessible online, and are licensed to
allow redistribution and reuse. BioMed Central is the largest open access publisher
in the world.</font></span></p>
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<span style="color:black"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Contact: Renate Bayaz, Tel +49-6221-487-8531,
</font><a href="mailto:renate.bayaz@springer.com" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">renate.bayaz@springer.com</font></a></span></span></p>
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