Springer & Kluwer - One Company

1. Springer & Kluwer - One Company ICOLC 2004 Syed Hasan, Springer Susan Pastore, Kluwer New Orleans, March 2004

2. Agenda Background of Springer-Verlag Background of Kluwer Academic Publishers Facts and Figures The new “Springer” The future Questions and Answers

3. Background of Springer-Verlag

4. Springer-Verlag: A Short History • 1842 Foundation in Berlin by Julius Springer • from 1960International Expansion:Springer-Verlag New York (1964), London (1983), • Tokyo (1983), Paris (1986), Hong Kong (1986) • January 1999Purchase of the Springer Group of Companiesby Bertelsmann • Foundation ofBertelsmannSpringer Science Business Media • May 2003 Purchase of BertelsmannSpringer by Cinven + Candover • October 2003 Renamed Springer Science + Business Media • 2004 New Board of Directors announced for Springer Science + Business Media

5. Imprints and Distribution Arrangements

6. Background of Kluwer Academic Publishers

7. Kluwer Academic Publishers: A Short History 1889 A.E. Kluwer founded his own publishing house in Holland. Nearly a century of gradual expansion follows 1970sCompany acquires Martinus Nijhoff Kluwer acquires Dr. W. Junk Publishers noted for its biological science titles Kluwer acquires D. Reidel Publishing, a leading publisher noted for its astronomy, physical sciences, mathematics and philosophy, leading to the creation of the current day Kluwer Academic Publishers 1998 Kluwer acquires Plenum Publishers and the prestigious Russian program Kluwer acquires Chapman & Hall Publishers 2000 Kluwer acquires Baltzer journals 2003 Candover & Cinven acquires Kluwer Academic Publishers Candover & Cinven acquires Bertelsmann Springer creating Springer Science + Business Media

9. Facts and Figures

10. SPRINGER TODAY KLUWER TODAY 1,500 Employees 600 Employees 800 eBooks 15,000 Books in Print, 5000 Print on Demand 1,200 books published annually Over 670 Journals in print and electronic form 1,900 eBooks Over 22,500 Books in Print 2,500 books published annually Over 500 Journals in print and electronic form International Presence with focus on the Americas, Europe and Asia

12. Worldwide Consortia arrangements 2003: 170 2003: 100 2002: 167 2002: 66 2001: 68 2001: 45 2000: 35 2000: 25 1999: 12 2000: 5 Total: 52

13. Overview # of Journals Over 500 Over 670 # of Articles avail.300,000+ 250,000+ 2003 Article downloads10,000,000 7,000,000 Back issues as of 1996 as of 1997

14. Usage Trends

15. Springer-Verlag and Kluwer Publishing Companies everywhere SV-Heidelberg SV-London KAP-London KAP-Moscow KAP-Boston SV-Vienna KAP-Dortrecht SV-New York KAP-New York KAP-Taipei Other Springer-Verlag Offices in Paris, Milano, New Delhi, Hong Kong SV-Tokyo Other Companies include Key Curriculum Press-Berkeley, Princeton Architecture Press-New York, Steinkopff-Darmstadt, Physica-Verlag-Heidelberg, Total: 52

16. The new “Springer”

17. Springer & Kluwer - One Company +

18. New Global Structure/Members

19. Gregor Karolus Human Resources Derk HaankCEO Prior to Springer: CEO Reed Elsevier Martin MosCOO Prior to Springer: CFO Elsevier Science Rüdiger GebauerSTM Publishing Prior to Springer: Deputy MD BS Dr. Ulrich VestCFO Prior to Springer: Member of the Board BS Peter HendriksSales & Marketing Prior to Springer:CEO KAP STM Board Members

20. Platform • Unified Platform – Goal: December 2004 • Seamless roll-out of one Global Integrated Site (Goal: end 2004) • Added functionality and enhancements – librarian input -Keyword Alerting -Personalized Features -Full Search Engine • Usage Reporting Upgrades (Counter Compliant) – librarian input • Increased Reliability-Multiple servers, guaranteed availability • Cross Reference Linking-KAP and SV are charter members of CrossRef

21. Policies Contracts/Agreements • ALL current SV and KAP contracts will be honored to expiration date • Contracts up for renewal will be rolled into new “Springer” arrangements • Negotiations for renewal agreements for 2005 will start early fall 2004 Pricing • No price increases will occur as a result of the merger • 2005 journal prices will be available in July 2004 • All current price caps and consortia contracts will be honored

22. Commitment to the Customer • Dedicated business support staff for customer service issues • 1-800 line and online support • Expanded sales team-Experienced in STM arena • Informational e-mails or alerts on a timely basis • Customer input option on website The customer comes first.

23. The future

24. Projects Digitizing Content: • The Company is committed to digitizing all content- Over 12 million pages of content to be digitized • Retro-digitizing back files of journals in process – target date of December 2004 set as completion date • Books are being digitized for both e-book production and Print on Demand publication. • Archival arrangements are a priority and further developments will be announced shortly

25. Library Advisory Board • New Library Advisory Board to be formed • Selected experts (librarians/consortia members) will be invited • The Board will work with a committee at Springer to advise on many details of the merged Company, current issues and policy changes • The Board and Springer will have an open forum policy for frank discussions and points of interest

26. Contact Information Thank you Syed Hasan shasan@springer-ny.com (212) 460-1739 Susan Pastore susan.pastore@wkap.com (781) 681-0501