Scientific Publishing in South America Chances and Opportunities

for Researchers in Brazil

• Introducing the Speakers, Visiting Team and Springer

• Electronic publishing and new publication types

• Open Access

• Science in Brazil

• What Springer offers to Brazil

– Presentation will be made available

– Questions may be asked in Portuguese

Outline of the Presentation

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

Introduction Visiting Forum

Brief personal Introduction

• PhD gamma-ray astronomy, Leiden 1997

Post-doc research at INAOE, Puebla, Mexico in 1998

• 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

• 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.

• 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

Our ambition for Brazil

eFirst Publishing

eFirst – rapid online publication

• Springerlink content database is the central access point for researchers in Science, Technology

and Medicine, containing 5 million journal articles and book chapters

• 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

Springerlink.com

• Springer Book Archive project

• 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

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

SpringerBriefs

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*

* 1000 BRL award plus publication of the entire thesis in the series

Pilot project in Chemistry and Physics and related fields such as Astrophysics, Materials, Nanoscience, Chemical Engineering, Complex Systems, Biotechnology and Biophysics

SpringerTheses

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.

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Fully open access journals

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

• 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.

• 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.

Open Access options with Springer

• 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)

What is ?

Science in Brazil

In Brazil, the numbers go up fast

• 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

• 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

• Scientific Electronic Library Online, has more than 850 free access journals from all of Latin America,

Spain, Portugal and South Africa (233 from Brazil)

• About 50 journals in English language, most others are hybrid (PT, ES, EN) and gradually switching to

English only.

• Springer offers to work with SciELO and introduce APCs

– Means income for the societies and funds for investment

• With Open Access we can have articles on SpringerLink and SciELO,

– Means more international visibility

• 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 the early

1990s

Since 2009

Since 2010

As of 2012

Since 2011

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

More Rapid Scientific Progress

Exchange of Ideas

All Scientists are Authors

Funding

Bodies

Researchers Grant

Writing

Journal

Publication

The Practical Reason

Why 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

Where do we Publish?

ISI Impact Factors calculated from the monitoring of ~8000 journals SCOPUS Impact Factors calculated from the monitoring of ~16000 journals

Where do we Publish?

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

Caution!!!