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PPA Information Summit / SLAC / May 2007
Chris Caron, Ph.D.
Senior Publishing Editor
Physics Editorial Department
Springer Heidelberg
Springer in Short
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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19.345.199
14.481.921
Total 2003
Total 2004
Total 2005
Total 2006 As of 03/07
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Online Publishing Cosmos
Data
Product Classification
Publisher
Editorial
Production
Production of electronic
content in A++ format
Distribution of electronic
content (Journals, eBooks,
Reference Works)
Links
Data
Abstracting
&
Indexing
Services
Host
Journals
eBooks
Local
Loading
Third
Party
Service
Ref.
Works
eBooks
Host Client Site
with access relevant information
Authentication
Order Processing
Invoicing
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Springer – Physics Journals
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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)
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EPJ A – Hadrons and Nuclei
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Structure of A and C adapted to the needs of a relatively small,
well networked (e.g. through SPIRES) and special community
(large collaborations):
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)
– Letters, Regular Articles, „Tools“ and Scientific Notes,
Reviews
– OA models
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