Conference Opening Science to Meet Future Challenges, Warsaw, March 11, 2014, organized by Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw.

1. A review of Open Access publishing
in Poland and Eastern Europe –
a study by BioMed Central and
Springer
Opening Science to Meet Future Challenges –
11th March 2014
Johanna Kuhn
BioMed Central Ltd

2. Outline
• Open access and SOAP
• Open access and BioMed Central /
SpringerOpen / Springer in Poland
• Our Open access initiative

3. BioMed Central
• Launched first open access journal in 2000
• Now publishes 260+ OA titles
• Over 140,000 peer-reviewed OA articles published
• More than 10 million article downloads per month
• Creative Commons
• Costs covered by 'article processing charge' (APC)
• Became part of Springer in 2008
• SpringerOpen

4. SOAP- Study of Open Access Publishing
• Funded by the European Commission
• Estimate dissemination to >1.5 million people
• Scheduled to run from March 2009 to February 2011
• Compare and contrast supply/demand for OA publishing
• Publishers, Libraries, Funding Agencies
4

5. How easy was it to obtain funds?

6. How was this fee covered?

7. Was there a reason not to publish OA?
42% gave a reason; >4000 answers; 60’000 words
39%
31%
10%
7%
7%
4%
2%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%
Funding
Journal performance
Other
Accessibility
Ignorence/unawarness
Habits
"Next time"

8. Outline
• Open access and SOAP
• Open access and BioMed Central /
SpringerOpen in Poland
• Our Open access initiative

9. Growth in Submissions and Publications
(worldwide)

10. 0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
900
2009 2010 2011 2012
Articles from Poland in BMC / SpringerOpen journals
submitted
accepted

13. What does this mean?
- 90% scientists think OA journals are a good thing
- Main barriers are lack of funds (40%) and journal
quality/prestige (30%) – also in Poland
- 45% - 62% of academics say that it is difficult to
obtain funding for OA publishing
- Despite this, number of submissions increasing
very strongly
- In Poland, the increase from year to year is the
strongest among 6 European countries

14. Outline
• Open access and SOAP
• Open access and BioMed Central /
SpringerOpen in Poland
• Our Open access initiative

15. Open Access flavors at
Springer
Hybrid Open Access
• Open Access option
in majority of
Springer titles
• Open Choice for
individual authors:
Article fee
€ 2200/ US$ 3000
Fully Open Access
•
•
Authors’ Rights
•
•
Journals & Books(NEW!)
• Self-archiving of
author’s accepted
manuscript version
• Upload service for
NIH funded authors
Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license for journal articles
Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC) license for books

16. Top 10 Impact Factors for
BioMed Central journals
Journal Impact Factor
Genome Biology 10.3
Particle and Fibre Toxicology 9.18
BMC Medicine 6.68
BMC Biology 6.53
Breast Cancer Research 5.87
Retrovirology 5.66
Biotechnology for Biofuels 5.55
Molecular Cancer 5.13
Cell Communication and
Signaling
5.09
Critical Care 4.72

18. BioMed Central and Springer Open
Membership Models
Prepay Membership
• University covers the
article cost (APC) for their
researchers by deposit
• No membership fee
• Researchers do not pay
anything
• Discount on the APC for
institution
• Deposit available without
time limits
Shared Support
Membership
• Cost shared equally
between institution and
researcher
• No membership fee
• Additional discount on
APC’s for researchers
• Deposit available without
time limits
Supporter
Membership
• Organisation does not
cover the APC for the
researchers
• Annual membership fee
for institution
• 15% discount on APC’s –
researchers pay less
For all membership types:
• Automated article feeds
• Institutional Members Page
• Marketing and PR support
• Automatic IP recognition or submission by code

19. 486 members in 52 countries
http://www.biomedcentral.com/inst/

20. Summary
• Open access publishing is growing fast, especially in
Poland
• The reason for this is the increasing quality and
recognition of open access journals
• However, Polish researchers still find it difficult to
obtain funding for fully open access journals
• BioMed Central and SpringerOpen work closely with
authors and organisations to encourage open
access and to make sure we provide the service and
quality they are looking for in publishing

21. Thank you