The Open University, 1 st November 2013 Open Access Publishing: the publishers’ perspective Alex...

The Open University, 1st November 2013

Open Access Publishing: the publishers’ perspective

Alex Christoforou

Head of Customer Services and Membership

The many facets of Open Access Publishing

‘Full’ Open Access

• Whole journal is published Open Access

‘Green’ Open Access

• Self-archiving of author manuscript on author website, institutional or subject-based repositories

‘Gold’ Open Access

• Article freely available from publisher website

‘Hybrid’ Open Access

• Article level Open Access option in subscription journals

‘Delayed’ Open Access

• Articles made freely available to non-subscribers after a certain period, usually 12 or 24 months

Author Payment

• Author/funder/institution pays for publishing

Sponsored

• Journal sponsored by a non-profit institution or organization

Publisher is paid for the service of publication instead of selling access to content

BioMed Central - The Open Access Publisher

Launched 1999

Publisher of over 250 open access journals

All journals are fully peer-reviewed with international Editorial Boards

Journals in all areas of life sciences, medicine and chemistry

Over 51,000 manuscripts submitted to BioMed Central journals in 2012

Overview of open access Changing landscape of open access publishing

2000 2013

And many more…

Impact Factor journals: Open Access market share

Subscription Journals

90%

‘Full’ OA Journals: Au-

thor Pays7%

‘Full’ OA Journals:

Sponsored3%

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 oflongitudinal 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

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 follow @SpringerOpen on

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

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 … somehowsave them … somewhere

annotate them … in some wayshare 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

It‘s not just about journals…

Cases

Trials

Data

Images

Books

• 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) 203 192 2106

alex.christoforou@biomedcentral.com

Q & A