Sıtkı Aktaş Regional Sales Director Springer Science + Business Media Turkey, Iran & Central Asia Springer in the region and Their Impact on the Scientific Research in the Region

Springer History & Products

Springer Overview Leading Global STM Publisher, > 2000 Journals, > 7000 new books each year Global Reach of Over 10 Million Largest Open Access Portfolio, >300 Journals 6,000 employees in 25 Countries J.P. Pavlov Medicine Albert Einstein Physics Niels H. de Bohr Physics Otto Hahn Chemistry Sir John Eccles Medicine Bert Sakmann Medicine Kurt Wüthrich Chemistry

4 Around 55 publishing houses in some 25 countries worldwide Australia Austria Brazil China France Germany Great Britain India Italy Japan Malaysia The Netherlands Russia South Korea South Africa Spain Switzerland Taiwan Turkey United Arab Emirates USA

Springer Products & Imprints

6 Our publishing brands

Leading Publishers: Number of Journals Titles Number of English-Language Journals Published in 2012 (English-language academic/scholarly journals) 2,191 2,056 1,734 1,

Leading Publishers: Number of Books Published (Data from and publisher websites; if a book is published simultaneously in hard- and paperback editions, only the hardback edition was included) 4,734 3,959 2,272 1,308 1,457 1,077 1, Number of English-Language Titles Published in 2011

Book Market Positions by Disciplines Discipline#1 Publisher#2 Publisher#3 Publisher Clinical MedicineLippincott W&WElsevier HealthMcGraw-Hill#4/5 Biomedical & Life SciencesWiley-BlackwellElsevier Earth & Environmental ScienceCUPWiley-Blackwell Chemistry & Materials ScienceWiley-BlackwellTaylor & Francis Physics & AstronomyCUPWiley-Blackwell EngineeringWiley-BlackwellTaylor & Francis Computer Science (research-level)IEEEIGI Global Mathematics & StatisticsWiley-BlackwellTaylor & Francis Business & EconomicsTaylor & FrancisPalgrave MacmillanEdwin Elgar#4/5 Social Sciences & Humanities Taylor & FrancisOUPPalgrave Macmillan#8/10

Central Asia – Research Output Number of Articles SCImago. (2007). SJR — SCImago Journal & Country Rank, Retrieved March 22, 2013, from

RankCountryArticles 2011 Articles 2000 CAGRArticle Share 2011 Article Share Azerbaijan %0.03%0.02% 2Uzbekistan %0.02%0.04% 3Kazakhstan %0.02% 4Kyrgyzstan %0.00% 5Tajikistan %0.00% 6Turkmenistan %0.00% Central Asia – Ranking by Research Articles SCImago. (2007). SJR — SCImago Journal & Country Rank, Retrieved March 22, 2013, from

Central Asia – Research Output Development SCImago. (2007). SJR — SCImago Journal & Country Rank, Retrieved March 22, 2013, from

Central Asia – Research Output by Disciplines Research Output by Disciplines 2011

SpringerLink Total Usage:

CountryVisits 2012 Azerbaijan 30,338 Uzbekistan 15,201 Kazakhstan 78,388 Kyrgyzstan 7,203 Tajikistan 2,536 Turkmenistan 577 SpringerLink Visits

Springer New initiatives

Access to Springer content in the region Outstanding and long term relationship Acting on behalf of the universities to ensure that scientific content are widely available to their scientific communities. Has an extensive impact on the level of use of scientific content and enhances scientific research in general

Azerbaijan National Deal

Develop a program of the very best journals from the region Built a growing book program based on the work of the regions leading scientists – Cooperate with leading institutions – Springer OPEN Books – Co-publish journals, book series – Provide editorial support Author workshops Publishing infrastructure Professional publishing experience Springer‘s publishing initiative

Subscription Journals - Iran IF: 3.157IF: IF: First Issues Published January 2012

SpringerOpen Journals - Iran Launched January 2012

Partnerships in KSA Journals on Topics of Regional and Strategic Importance IF: 1.141IF: Subscription Journals

2013: Digitize everything “Digitize all journals going forward!” 1996 “Digitize most books going forward!” “Digitize all books going forward and a lot of books going backward!” “Digitize all journals going backward!” 2004 Journals 1842 Springer-Verlag founded 197,000 articles/yr 5,000 books/yr Books Springer developments

Introducing the Springer Book Archives Project A digitized book archive of historic titles dating back to the 1840s; 100,000+ Springer eBooks are available at SpringerLink; The Springer Book Archives confirms Springer’s commitment to the preservation of valuable scholarly content and the online accessibility thereof.

26 Рахмaт (Source: SCImago. (2007). SJR — SCImago Journal & Country Rank, Retrieved Oct 26th, 2012, from THANK YOU Sıtkı Aktaş