The Open University, 1 st November 2013 Open Access Publishing: the publishers’ perspective Alex Christoforou Head of Customer Services and Membership

The many facets of Open Access Publishing Publisher is paid for the service of publication instead of selling access to content

BioMed Central - The Open Access Publisher Launched 1999Publisher of over 250 open access journalsAll journals are fully peer-reviewed with international Editorial BoardsJournals in all areas of life sciences, medicine and chemistryOver 51,000 manuscripts submitted to BioMed Central journals in 2012

Overview of open access Changing landscape of open access publishing And many more…

Impact Factor journals: Open Access market share Number of Articles in Journal Citation Reports 2012 Subscription journals include: ‘Hybrid’ Journals (OA articles: 1% of all articles) ‘Delayed’ OA Journals (6% of all articles) Sources: Journal Citation Reports 2012;DOAJ; Laakso and Björk: Anatomy of open access publishing: a study of longitudinal development and internal structure, BMC Medicine 2012

Interesting New Journals (all OA) eLife - Highly selective journal backed by HHMI, Max Planck Society and Wellcome Trust - Reviewing editors lead online discussions resulting in a single concise set of instructions for revisions F1000 Research - All articles are published within days following an in-house check for obvious inappropriateness - Peer review takes place immediately after publication; reviews and reviewers’ identities are published alongside articles PeerJ - Authors pay to become members (starting at $99) instead of paying APCs - Must commit to providing at least 1 review each year

A busy year for open access

Open access policies around the world 302 mandates 81 Funder Mandates 177 Institutional 29 Sub-institutional 5 Multi-institutional 2,841 repositories worldwide containing 26,498,237 items

How are BioMed Central and Springer keeping up?

BioMed Central: The Journals 148 of 257 journals now have Impact Factors 148 of 257 journals now have Impact Factors

Springer‘s portfolio of peer-reviewed, fully open access journals and books across all areas of science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences! Visit springeropen.com or onspringeropen.com Ranging from specialized titles to SpringerPlus More than 20 open access books 17 journals with a 2012 Impact Factor Over 150 open access journals Launched in June 2010

SpringerOpen journals in subject fields (Sept 2013)

SpringerOpen – Now including Books! All SpringerOpen book chapters are fully open access (copyright remains with the authors/editors; Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license) OA charge is calculated individually, based on the numbers of pages per book SpringerOpen books authors/editors affiliated to a Member Institute are entitled to a 15% loyalty discount

Springer Open Choice

New mobile formats Mobile friendly design of journals and articles Device-specific formatting for smart phone or tablet users Mobile-optimised figure presentation, content navigation and search Articles can be saved to read offline and used by apps such as iBooks, Dropbox and Papers

Mobile formats Platform independent technology: Articles published in BioMed Central and SpringerOpen journals are available in the ePUB format which is compatible with all e-readers (Kindle, iPAD, Nook etc)

Visibility

Visibility for our authors BioMed Central & SpringerOpen website statistics Over 25 million page views a month More than 7 million user sessions per month Over 1.5 million registered users Over 420,000 recipients to BioMed Central and SpringerOpen newsletters SpringerLink - the world’s most complete online collection of STM content Over 20 million page views a month More than 12 million user sessions per month

Altmetrics

Researchers find articles … somehow save them … somewhere annotate them … in some way share them … sometimes get back to them … if they can find again eventually cite them … and then often reformat the citation

Membership Program Prepay Members – 162 Shared Support Members – 26 Supporter Members – 257 Foundation Membership – 22

Administrations tools Tracking Accountability Easy management Flexibility

Institutional Repository (DSpace/Eprints etc.) Manuscript SWORD Import SWORD Export Published articles from institution’s authors Published article Automated Article Feeds

Books (SpringerOpen) Wellcome policy

Open access publishing is growing globally Funding for Open Access is being put in place all over the world Open access publishers provide an improved service ─Visibility and impact ─Distribution ─Accessibility Future: to support science as it develops ─Data sharing ─Reproducibility Summary

Thank You Alex Christoforou Head of Customer Service and Membership +44 (0)

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