A review of Open Access publishing in Poland and Eastern Europe –a study by BioMed Central and

Springer

Opening Science to Meet Future Challenges –11th March 2014

Johanna Kuhn

BioMed Central Ltd

Outline

• Open access and SOAP

• Open access and BioMed Central / SpringerOpen / Springer in Poland

• Our Open access initiative

BioMed Central

• Launched first open access journal in 2000

• Now publishes 260+ OA titles

• Over 140,000 peer-reviewed OA articles published

• More than 10 million article downloads per month

• Creative Commons

• Costs covered by 'article processing charge' (APC)

• Became part of Springer in 2008

• SpringerOpen

SOAP- Study of Open Access Publishing

• Funded by the European Commission

• Estimate dissemination to >1.5 million people

• Scheduled to run from March 2009 to February 2011

• Compare and contrast supply/demand for OA publishing

• Publishers, Libraries, Funding Agencies

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How easy was it to obtain funds?

How was this fee covered?

Was there a reason not to publish OA?

42% gave a reason; >4000 answers; 60’000 words

39%

31%

10%

7%

7%

4%

2%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%

Funding

Journal performance

Other

Accessibility

Ignorence/unawarness

Habits

"Next time"

Outline

• Open access and SOAP

• Open access and BioMed Central / SpringerOpen in Poland

• Our Open access initiative

Growth in Submissions and Publications(worldwide)

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2009 2010 2011 2012

Articles from Poland in BMC / SpringerOpen journals

submitted

accepted

What does this mean?

- 90% scientists think OA journals are a good thing- Main barriers are lack of funds (40%) and journal

quality/prestige (30%) – also in Poland- 45% - 62% of academics say that it is difficult to

obtain funding for OA publishing- Despite this, number of submissions increasing

very strongly- In Poland, the increase from year to year is the

strongest among 6 European countries

Outline

• Open access and SOAP

• Open access and BioMed Central / SpringerOpen in Poland

• Our Open access initiative

Open Access flavors at

Springer

Hybrid Open Access

• Open Access option

in majority of

Springer titles

• Open Choice for

individual authors:

Article fee

€ 2200/ US$ 3000

Fully Open Access

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Authors’ Rights

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Journals & Books(NEW!)

• Self-archiving of

author’s accepted

manuscript version

• Upload service for

NIH funded authors

Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license for journal articles

Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC) license for books

Top 10 Impact Factors for

BioMed Central journalsJournal Impact Factor

Genome Biology 10.3

Particle and Fibre Toxicology 9.18

BMC Medicine 6.68

BMC Biology 6.53

Breast Cancer Research 5.87

Retrovirology 5.66

Biotechnology for Biofuels 5.55

Molecular Cancer 5.13

Cell Communication and Signaling

5.09

Critical Care 4.72

BioMed Central and Springer Open

Membership Models

Prepay Membership

• University covers the article cost (APC) for their researchers by deposit

• No membership fee

• Researchers do not pay anything

• Discount on the APC for institution

• Deposit available without time limits

Shared Support Membership

• Cost shared equally between institution and researcher

• No membership fee

• Additional discount on APC’s for researchers

• Deposit available without time limits

Supporter Membership

• Organisation does not cover the APC for the researchers

• Annual membership fee for institution

• 15% discount on APC’s –researchers pay less

For all membership types:

• Automated article feeds

• Institutional Members Page

• Marketing and PR support

• Automatic IP recognition or submission by code

486 members in 52 countrieshttp://www.biomedcentral.com/inst/

Summary

• Open access publishing is growing fast, especially in

Poland

• The reason for this is the increasing quality and

recognition of open access journals

• However, Polish researchers still find it difficult to

obtain funding for fully open access journals

• BioMed Central and SpringerOpen work closely with

authors and organisations to encourage open

access and to make sure we provide the service and

quality they are looking for in publishing

Thank you