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PPA Information Summit / SLAC / May 2007

Chris Caron, Ph.D.

Senior Publishing Editor

Physics Editorial Department

Springer Heidelberg

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Springer in Short

• Springer Science and Business Media: STM and B2B

• STM encompasses:

– Architecture, Biomedicine/Life Sciences, Clinical and

Professional Medicine, Economics/Statistics, Human Sciences,

Mathematics/Computer Sciences, Physical

Sciences/Engineering (includes geosciences and chemistry)

• Core strategy physical sciences etal.:

– Publish must-have content

• Journals

• Major Reference Works

• Graduate Textbooks

• Monographs

• Occasionally: popular sciences

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Springer in Numbers #1

• some 1850 journals, close to 1600 in STM with just short of

10% of the total scientific paper output worldwide.

– Some 300 journals added in 2006

– About 25% is society content

• Some 5500 new book titles/year

– Since 2004 complete digitization of book content

– Since 2006 consortial-type e-book library packages

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Springer in Numbers #2

• Electronic platform: SpringerLink

– 3.3 million articles/chapters from journals and books

– 475.000 documents added in 2006

• 2/3 from journals (including archives)

• 1/3 from books (including major reference works)

14.481.921

43.277.993

19.345.19924.487.208

28.405.238

05.000.000

10.000.00015.000.00020.000.00025.000.00030.000.00035.000.00040.000.00045.000.00050.000.000

Total 2003 Total 2004 Total 2005 Total 2006 As of 03/07

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Online Publishing Cosmos

Invoicing

Host Client Site with access relevant information

Distribution of electroniccontent (Journals, eBooks,

Reference Works)

Product Classification

Production of electroniccontent in A++ format

Editorial

Production

LocalLoading

ThirdParty

Service

Journals

eBooks

Ref.Works

Order Processing

Authentication

DataLinks

Data

eBooks

Abstracting&

IndexingServices

Publisher

Host

Invoicing

Host Client Site with access relevant information

Distribution of electroniccontent (Journals, eBooks,

Reference Works)

Product Classification

Production of electroniccontent in A++ format

Editorial

Production

LocalLoading

ThirdParty

Service

Journals

eBooks

Ref.Works

Order Processing

Authentication

DataLinks

Data

eBooks

Abstracting&

IndexingServices

Publisher

Host

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Springer – Physics Journals

• The European Physical Journal (EPJ), A-E, ST

• General Relativity and Gravitation

• Foundations of Physics

• Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics (JETP)

• Astronomy and Astrophysics Reviews

• Communications in Mathematical Physics

• Few-Body Systems

• International Journal of Theoretical Physics

• Journal of Statistical Physics

• Physics of Particles and Nuclei

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The European Physical Journal (EPJ)

• EPJ A – Hadrons and Nuclei

• EPJ B – Cond. Mat. and Complex Systems

• EPJ C – Particles and Fields

• EPJ D – Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics

• EPJ E – Soft Matter

• EPJ ST – Special Topics (new)

• Structure of A and C adapted to the needs of a relatively small, well networked (e.g. through SPIRES) and special community (large collaborations):

– Letters, Regular Articles, „Tools“ and Scientific Notes, Reviews

– OA models