Subject: Springer permits commercial use for its hybrid open access program
Date: 18 January 2012
http://www.springer.com/about+springer/media/pressreleases?SGWID=0-11002-6-1332921-0
Springer Open Choice adopts the Creative Commons Attribution License
Springer is bringing Open Choice, its hybrid open access option, into
line with the fully open access journals published by BioMed Central
and SpringerOpen. As a result, all open access content at Springer
will be published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY)
license.
In 2004, the hybrid open access option Open Choice was launched at
Springer with the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license.
Springer’s Open Choice option allows authors to publish their articles
with open access for the majority of Springer's subscription-based
journals. The articles are immediately freely available for anyone
worldwide in exchange of paying an article processing charge. The
copyright remains with the author.
Bettina Goerner, Manager Open Access at Springer, says: “The positive
experience with publishing fully open access journals under the CC-BY
license at BioMed Central and SpringerOpen, led us to believe that
permitting commercial use has benefits for our authors, editors,
society partners and open access in general. We are pleased that our
Open Choice option to publish open access meets the growing demand for
liberal re-use rights.”
In addition to Open Choice, Springer offers fully open access journals
under the SpringerOpen brand. The portfolio of more than 60 journals
was recently joined by SpringerPlus, an interdisciplinary open access
journal, publishing research in all STM disciplines.
Springer Science+Business Media is a leading global scientific
publisher, delivering quality content through innovative information
products and services. The company is also a trusted provider of
local-language professional publications in Europe, especially in
Germany and the Netherlands. In the science, technology and medicine
(STM) sector, the group publishes around 2,000 journals and more than
7,000 new books a year, as well as the largest STM eBook Collection
worldwide. Springer has operations in about 20 countries in Europe,
the USA, and Asia, and more than 5,500 employees. In 2010, it
generated annual sales of around EUR 866 million.
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