<font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><font>[Forwarding from Springer. --Peter Suber.]<br></font><br></font><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;line-height:normal;border-collapse:separate;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div style="font-weight:normal">
<b><font color="#000000"><br></font></b></div><div style="font-weight:normal"><b><font color="#000000">PRESS RELEASE</font></b></div><div><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;line-height:normal;border-collapse:separate;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><p dir="LTR">
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<span lang="de"><b></b></span><span lang="de"><b></b></span><b><span lang="en-us">Springer permits commercial use for its hybrid open access program<br></span></b></p><p dir="LTR" style="font-weight:normal"><span lang="de"><b></b></span><span lang="de"><b></b></span><b><span lang="en-us">Springer</span></b><span lang="de"><b><i></i></b></span><span lang="de"><b><i></i></b></span><b><i><span lang="en-us"> Open Choice</span></i></b><span lang="de"><b></b></span><span lang="de"><b></b></span><b><span lang="en-us"> adopts the Creative Commons Attribution License<br>
</span></b></p><p dir="LTR" style="font-weight:normal"><span lang="de"></span><span lang="en-us"><font>Heidelberg/Dordrecht/New York/London, 18 January 2012</font></span></p><p dir="LTR" style="font-weight:normal"><span lang="en-us"><font>Springer is bringing</font></span><span lang="de"><i></i></span><i><span lang="en-us"> <font>Open Choice</font></span></i><span lang="de"></span><span lang="en-us"><font>, its hybrid open access optio</font><font>n, into line with the fully open access journals published by BioMed Central and</font></span><span lang="de"><i></i></span><i><span lang="en-us"> <font>SpringerOpen</font></span></i><span lang="de"></span><span lang="en-us"><font>. As a result, all open access content at Springer will be published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license.</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR" style="font-weight:normal"><span lang="en-us"><font>In 2004, the hybrid open access optio</font><font>n</font></span><span lang="de"><i></i></span><i><span lang="en-us"> <font>Open Choice</font></span></i><span lang="de"></span><span lang="en-us"><font> was launched at Springer with the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license. Springer</font><font>’</font><font>s</font></span><span lang="de"><i></i></span><i><span lang="en-us"> <font>Open Choice</font></span></i><span lang="de"></span><span lang="en-us"><font> option allows authors to publish their articles with open access for the majority of its subscription-based journals. The articles a</font><font>re immediately freely available for anyone worldwide in exchange of paying an article processing charge. The copyright remains with the author.</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR" style="font-weight:normal"><span lang="en-us"><font>Bettina Goerner, Manager Open Access at Springer, says: “The positive experience with publishing fully open acc</font><font>ess journals under the CC-BY license at BioMed Central and</font></span><span lang="de"><i></i></span><i><span lang="en-us"> <font>SpringerOpen</font></span></i><span lang="de"></span><span lang="en-us"><font>, lead us to believe that permitting commercial use has benefits to our authors, editors, society partners and open access in general. We are pleased that our</font></span><span lang="de"><i></i></span><i><span lang="en-us"> <font>Open Choice</font></span></i><span lang="de"></span><span lang="en-us"><font> option to publ</font><font>ish open access meets the growing demand for liberal re-use rights.”</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR" style="font-weight:normal"><span lang="en-us"><font>In addition to</font></span><span lang="de"><i></i></span><i><span lang="en-us"> <font>Open Choice</font></span></i><span lang="de"></span><span lang="en-us"><font>, Springer offers fully open access journals under the</font></span><span lang="de"><i></i></span><i><span lang="en-us"> <font>SpringerOpen</font></span></i><span lang="de"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font>brand. The portfolio of more than 60 journals was recently joined by</font></span><span lang="de"><i></i></span><i><span lang="en-us"> <font>SpringerPlus</font></span></i><span lang="de"></span><span lang="en-us"><font>, an interd</font><font>isciplinary open access journal, publishing research in all STM disciplines.</font></span></p>
<div style="font-weight:normal"><span lang="de"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><br></div><p dir="LTR" style="font-weight:normal"><span lang="de"></span><span lang="en-us"><font>More information about:</font></span></p>
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<span lang="en-us"><font>Springer</font></span><span lang="de"><i></i></span><i><span lang="en-us"> <font>Open Choice</font></span></i><span lang="de"></span><span lang="en-us"><font> (</font></span><span lang="de"></span><a href="http://www.springer.com/openchoice" target="_blank"><span lang="de"><u></u></span><u><span lang="en-us"><font color="#0000FF">www.springer.com/openchoice</font></span></u><span lang="de"></span></a><span lang="de"></span><span lang="en-us"><font>)</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR" style="font-weight:normal"><span lang="en-us"><font>Springer and Open Access</font></span><span lang="de"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#1F497D"> (</font></span><span lang="de"></span><a href="http://www.springer.com/openaccess" target="_blank"><span lang="de"><u></u></span><u><span lang="en-us"><font color="#0000FF">www.springer.com/openaccess</font></span></u><span lang="de"></span></a><span lang="de"></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#1F497D">)</font></span><span lang="de"><u></u></span><u><span lang="en-us"></span></u></p>
<p dir="LTR" style="font-weight:normal"><span lang="de"><b></b></span><b><span lang="en-us"></span></b></p><p dir="LTR" style="font-weight:normal"><b><span lang="en-us"><font>Springer Science+Business Media</font></span></b><span lang="de"></span><span lang="en-us"><font> (</font></span><span lang="de"></span><a href="http://www.springer.com/" target="_blank"><span lang="de"><b><u></u></b></span><b><u><span lang="en-us"><font color="#0000FF">www.springer.com</font></span></u></b><span lang="de"></span></a><span lang="de"></span><span lang="en-us"><font>) is a leading global scientific publisher, delivering quality content through innovati</font><font>ve 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</font><font></font> <font>2,000 journals and more than 7,000 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 5,500 employees. In 2010, it generated annual sales of ar</font><font>o</font><font>und EUR 866 million.<br>
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