Scientific Publishing in South America
Chances and Opportunities
for Researchers in Brazil
Outline of the Presentation
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Introducing the Speakers, Visiting Team and Springer
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Electronic publishing and new publication types
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Open Access
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Science in Brazil
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What Springer offers to Brazil
– Presentation will be made available
– Questions may be asked in Portuguese
Introduction Visiting Forum
Dr. Daniel McGowan – Edanz Group Science Director – New Zealand
Mariana Biojone – Senior Business Development Editor – Springer São Paulo
Fiona Pring – Senior Acquisitions Editor – BioMed Central Ltd. London
Dr. Nandita Quaderi – Publisher Biological Sciences – BioMed Central Ltd. London
Dr. Mayra Castro – Editor for Engineering Nanotechnology; Materials Science; Bioengineering;
Green Energy Technology – Springer Heidelberg
Annie Cimino – Editorial Director for Medical and Life Science Journals – Springer New York
Beverley Ford – Editorial Director - Computer Science, Computer Vision, Graphics, Animation
& Games, HCI / Human Factors, Information Systems, SWE, Programming languages and
techniques – Springer London
Paul Manning – Executive Vice-President Computer Science – Springer New York
Bill Tucker – Editorial Director Behavioral and Social Sciences – Springer New York
Heloisa Tiberio – Account Specialist – Springer São Paulo
Brief personal Introduction
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PhD gamma-ray astronomy, Leiden 1997
Post-doc research at INAOE, Puebla, Mexico in 1998
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Twelve years in publishing (Kluwer in Holland then Springer in the USA)
Since 2011, head of astronomy editorial at Springer New York and
Brazilian Market Development Springer São Paulo
experience working in science and in publishing in an international arena
Introducing Springer
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Experience in academic publishing since 1842
More than 6,000 new books published per year
Leading journals Publisher: ~2000 journals
 1/3 in cooperation with societies and other organizations
Global powerful publisher with local personal contacts
Leading in China and Russia
Innovative product development:
– SpringerLink: 600 consortia customers and 35,000+ institutions worldwide
– Springer Open Choice, BioMed Central, Briefs, Theses, Images
– 51,000+ eBooks and MyCopy
– 216 eReference Works
• Over 1/5th of Nobel prize winners are Springer authors, includes almost all of the recent
winners working in science.
Our ambition for Brazil
• Develop a representative program of the very best
journals from the region
• Lay the foundations for a growing book and reference
program based on the work of the region‘s leading
scientists
– Cooperate with leading institutions
– Co-publish and develop Journals
– Co-publish Book Series
– Provide editorial support
• Author Workshops and Guidance (e.g. Edanz)
• Publishing infrastructure
• Professional publishing experience
eFirst Publishing
Springerlink.com
eFirst – rapid online publication
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Springerlink content database is the central access point for researchers in Science, Technology
and Medicine, containing 5 million journal articles and book chapters
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All new Springer books are first published as eBooks and in many countries we offer a
~50 BRL black & white PB version called MyCopy for institutions who buy access to the eBooks
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Springer Book Archive project
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More than 70 000 titles available for digitisation
eBooks are compatible with the well-known eReaders, iPad,
Kindle, Nook.
SpringerLink serves 600 consortia and more than 35,000 institutions worldwide
SpringerLink.com –
integrated platform for eJournals & eBooks
SpringerLink Journal Example
SpringerBriefs
Introduction of New Product Types: SpringerBriefs
• Providing a format for publishing ideas somewhere between a research
article and a book
• Hot topics and comprehensive tutorials
• Typically 100 pages
• Easy 2 pages contract and rapid publication
• Organized in focused series
SpringerTheses
Project Concept
„Best of the Best“
• Top-ranked institutes from around the world invited to nominate their best Ph.D.
theses for a Springer Thesis Prize*
Pilot project in Chemistry and Physics and
related fields such as Astrophysics, Materials,
Nanoscience, Chemical Engineering, Complex
Systems, Biotechnology and Biophysics
* 1000 BRL award plus publication of the entire thesis in the series
Images with good descriptive captions are separately stored in a
searchable database for easy discovery of graphical information.
Open access
What is Open Access?
The article is universally and publicly accessible via the Internet, in an easily
readable format and deposited immediately upon publication, without embargo.
Copyright remains with the author
Creative Commons
“The author or copyright owner irrevocably grants to any third party, in advance
and in perpetuity, the right to use, reproduce or disseminate the research article in
its entirety or in part.”
The publication fees are covered by the author or by research funds.
No subscription fees are paid by the libraries.
Fully open access journals
Source: http://www.doaj.org/
Fully open access journals
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Source: http://www.doaj.org/
Open access to research output is becoming mandatory
Open access mandates
Source: http://www.openscholarship.org/jcms/c_6226/open-access-policies-for-universities-and-research-institutions?hlText=policies
Open Access options with Springer
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Definitions
– Free Access: authors, universities, societies are not paying for public access (SciELO).
• Includes temporary public access of subscription materials for promotion reasons
– Open Access: authors, universities, societies pay for public access.
• Green Open Access: author versions in public repositories (for example arXiv).
• Gold Open Access: final versions are publicly accessible on publishers Web site.
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Springer (Green by default)
– Articles in subscription journals = Open Choice (Gold)
• Article fee = ~5000 BRL, author is given choice after acceptance of article
– Articles in full open access journals = SpringerOpen or BioMed Central (Life Sciences)
• Article fee = between 1100 -1500 BRL, paid in many different ways.
• Signing up institutional (university, society) members who pay for the authors.
What is
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• New suite of open access journals which will cover all disciplines
– BioMed Central for the biomedical topics
• All articles are fully and immediately open access (copyright authors, Creative
Commons Attribution license)
• No subscriptions,
article processing fees instead
– Paid by the author (via research grant, library, institutional OA fund, …)
– Paid by a member institution
– Waivers (economic hardship; Invitation waivers for EICs)
Science in Brazil
In Brazil, the numbers go up fast
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R&D spending 8% growth annually since 2005
Fast growing scientific production (17% per year vs. 3% globally)
Close to 200 universities
# of students > Germany & UK combined (about 4 million)
Strong government policy and investments to grow the country’s scientific impact
55% of the research output of Latin-America comes from Brazil
The 7th economy in the world with:
GDP ~2 trillion USD
~1.5% of this is spent on
Science & Technology (= ~30 billion USD).
Science Output of Citable Documents from the Region (SCImago, 03/2012)
Country
2007
% 2010
Citations
per document
in 2007
Brazil (13)
30 040
+44
43 169
5.69
Mexico
10 505
+27
13 326
5.80
Argentina
7 230
+28
9 237
7.13
Chile
4 627
+34
6 199
7.17
Colombia
2 178
+89
4 111
5.83
Cuba
1 473
+14
1 674
3.00
Venezuela
1 703
+5
1 782
4.30
USA (1)
354 976
+29
457 642
11.64
China (2)
203 626
+55
315 768
4.02
UK (3)
111 020
+11
123 756
10.48
Germany (4)
99 082
+20
119 216
10.77
Holland (14)
32 926
+15
37 991
12.68
Size of the market and Focus Fields
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Brazil top 5 fields of the 43 000 citable articles published in 2010
– 27% = Medicine, Tropical Medicine, & Public Health
– 20% = Agricultural & Biological Sciences
– 10% = Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology
– 6% = Physics and Astronomy
– 6% = Chemistry
Springer Author
Mapper
2008: 2268
2009: 2731
2010: 3545
2011: 4898
BMC submitting
authors
2008: 162
2009: 219
2010: 302
SciELO
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Scientific Electronic Library Online, has more than 850 free access journals from all of Latin America,
Spain, Portugal and South Africa (233 from Brazil)
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About 50 journals in English language, most others are hybrid (PT, ES, EN) and gradually switching to
English only.
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Springer offers to work with SciELO and introduce APCs
– Means income for the societies and funds for investment
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With Open Access we can have articles on SpringerLink and SciELO,
– Means more international visibility
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Requested partnership to start new OA journals
Springer editors add a journal development strategy
Societies receive an annual report
Springer and Brazil
Our office in São Paulo, the heart of a metropolitan area
with 20 million people
Avenida Paulista
Springer distributes Journals from Brazil, increasing collaboration
Since 2009
Since the early
1990s
Since 2010
Since 2011
As of 2012
Library Advisory Board Activities in Brazil
Discuss and share our strategies and future activities with the directors of main Brazilian
university, academic, and scientific institutional libraries by increasing the dialog among our
institutions to become, more and more, partners.
• vision of editorial activities in Brazil
with the new office
• increase the knowledge of the
existence (and possible
partnerships) of scientific journals
owned by universities
• support the university efforts on
training authors on how to write
scientific articles and manuscripts
Thank you
Obrigado
Journal Basics
Why do we publish?
The Real Reason
Exchange of
Ideas
More Rapid
Scientific
Progress
All Scientists are Authors
Why do we publish?
The Practical Reason
Funding
Bodies
Grant
Writing
Researchers
Journal
Publication
Where do we Publish?
Where do we Publish?
Measuring Quality
Impact Factor Calculation
2011 Impact Factor:
Cites in 2011 to items published in 2010 + 2009
Total 2010 + 2009 Articles
ISI Impact Factors calculated from the monitoring of ~8000 journals
SCOPUS Impact Factors calculated from the monitoring of ~16000 journals
Where do we Publish?
Caution!!!
Impact Factors Measure:
– the Popularity of a Science/topic
– the amount scientists in those disciplines write
Example:
Biomedical journals usually have much higher Impact Factors than Engineering
journals
The science in both is good but the nature of the science dictates a different rate of
publication