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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. Springer Science and Business Media: STM and B2B STM encompasses:
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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 • 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
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
50.000.000 43.277.993 45.000.000 40.000.000 35.000.000 28.405.238 30.000.000 24.487.208 25.000.000 19.345.199 20.000.000 14.481.921 15.000.000 10.000.000 5.000.000 0 Total 2003 Total 2004 Total 2005 Total 2006 As of 03/07 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)
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
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