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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="de"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"><B></B></SPAN><B><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=5 FACE="Arial">Springer permits commercial use for its hybrid open access program<BR>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="de"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"><B></B></SPAN><B><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">Springer</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN LANG="de"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><B><I><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Arial">Open Choice</FONT></SPAN></I></B><SPAN LANG="de"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"><B></B></SPAN><B><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial"> adopts the Creative Commons Attribution License<BR>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Heidelberg/Dordrecht/New York/London, 18 January 2012</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Springer is bringing</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"><I></I></SPAN><I><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Open Choice</FONT></SPAN></I><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">, its hybrid open access optio</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">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 SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">SpringerOpen</FONT></SPAN></I><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">. 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><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">In 2004, the hybrid open access optio</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">n</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"><I></I></SPAN><I><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Open Choice</FONT></SPAN></I><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> was launched at Springer with the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license. Springer</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">’</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">s</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"><I></I></SPAN><I><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Open Choice</FONT></SPAN></I><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> option allows authors to publish their articles with open access for the majority of its subscription-based journals. The articles a</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">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><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Bettina Goerner, Manager Open Access at Springer, says: “The positive experience with publishing fully open acc</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">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 SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">SpringerOpen</FONT></SPAN></I><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">, 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 SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Open Choice</FONT></SPAN></I><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> option to publ</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">ish open access meets the growing demand for liberal re-use rights.”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">In addition to</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"><I></I></SPAN><I><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Open Choice</FONT></SPAN></I><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">, Springer offers fully open access journals under the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"><I></I></SPAN><I><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">SpringerOpen</FONT></SPAN></I><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">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 SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">SpringerPlus</FONT></SPAN></I><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">, an interd</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">isciplinary open access journal, publishing research in all STM disciplines.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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