[GOAL] PRESS RELEASE: Springer permits commercial use for its hybrid open access program

[Bayaz, Renate, Springer DE]

PRESS RELEASE

Springer permits commercial use for its hybrid open access program

Springer Open Choice adopts the Creative Commons Attribution License
 
Heidelberg/Dordrecht/New York/London, 18 January 2012

Springer is bringing Open Choice, its hybrid open access option, into
line with the fully open access journals published by BioMed Central and
SpringerOpen. As a result, all open access content at Springer will be
published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license.

In 2004, the hybrid open access option Open Choice was launched at
Springer with the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license.
Springer's Open Choice option allows authors to publish their articles
with open access for the majority of its subscription-based journals.
The articles are immediately freely available for anyone worldwide in
exchange of paying an article processing charge. The copyright remains
with the author.

Bettina Goerner, Manager Open Access at Springer, says: "The positive
experience with publishing fully open access journals under the CC-BY
license at BioMed Central and SpringerOpen, 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 Open Choice
option to publish open access meets the growing demand for liberal
re-use rights."

In addition to Open Choice, Springer offers fully open access journals
under the SpringerOpen brand. The portfolio of more than 60 journals was
recently joined by SpringerPlus, an interdisciplinary open access
journal, publishing research in all STM disciplines.

More information about:
Springer Open Choice (www.springer.com/openchoice) 
Springer and Open Access (www.springer.com/openaccess)

Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) 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 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 around EUR 866 million.

Contact: Renate Bayaz | renate.bayaz at springer.com | +49-171-8668118 |
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