Sıtkı Aktaş

Regional Sales Director

Springer Science + Business Media

Turkey, Iran & Central Asia

Springer in the region and Their Impact on the Scientific Research in the Region

Springer History & Products

Springer Overview

• Leading Global STM Publisher,

• > 2000 Journals , > 7000 new books each year

• Global Reach of Over 10 Million

• Largest Open Access Portfolio, >300 Journals

• 6,000 employees in 25 Countries

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J.P. Pavlov

Medicine

Albert Einstein

Physics Niels H. de Bohr

PhysicsOtto Hahn

Chemistry Sir John Eccles

Medicine

Bert Sakmann

Medicine

Kurt Wüthrich

Chemistry

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Around 55 publishing houses in some 25 countries worldwideAustralia

Austria

Brazil

China

France

Germany

Great Britain

India

Italy

Japan

Malaysia

The Netherlands

Russia

South Korea

South Africa

Spain

Switzerland

Taiwan

Turkey

United Arab Emirates

USA

Springer Products & Imprints

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Our publishing brands

Leading Publishers: Number of Journals Titles

Number of English-Language Journals Published in 2012

(English-language academic/scholarly journals)

2,191

2,056

1,734

1,517

626

304

275

253

Leading Publishers: Number of Books Published

(Data from www.puballey.com and publisher websites; if a book is published simultaneously in hard- and paperback editions, only the hardback edition was included)

4,734

3,959

2,272

1,308

1,457

1,077

1,578

725

239

Number of English-Language Titles Published in 2011

Book Market Positions by Disciplines

Discipline #1 Publisher #2 Publisher #3 Publisher

Clinical Medicine Lippincott W&W Elsevier Health McGraw-Hill #4/5

Biomedical & Life Sciences Wiley-Blackwell Elsevier

Earth & Environmental Science CUP Wiley-Blackwell

Chemistry & Materials Science Wiley-Blackwell Taylor & Francis

Physics & Astronomy CUP Wiley-Blackwell

Engineering Wiley-Blackwell Taylor & Francis

Computer Science (research-level) IEEE IGI Global

Mathematics & Statistics Wiley-Blackwell Taylor & Francis

Business & Economics Taylor & Francis Palgrave Macmillan Edwin Elgar #4/5

Social Sciences & Humanities Taylor & Francis OUP Palgrave Macmillan #8/10

Central Asia – Research Output 2000-11

Number of Articles 2000-2011Number of Articles 2000-2011

SCImago. (2007). SJR — SCImago Journal & Country Rank, Retrieved March 22, 2013, from http://www.scimagojr.com

Rank Country Articles 2011

Articles 2000

CAGR Article Share 2011

Article Share 2000

1 Azerbaijan 732 184 13.4% 0.03% 0.02%

2 Uzbekistan 498 400 2.0% 0.02% 0.04%

3 Kazakhstan 425 411 6.0% 0.02% 0.02%

4 Kyrgyzstan 76 38 6.5% 0.00% 0.00%

5 Tajikistan 70 30 8.0% 0.00% 0.00%

6 Turkmenistan 29 11 9.2% 0.00% 0.00%

Central Asia – Ranking by Research Articles

SCImago. (2007). SJR — SCImago Journal & Country Rank, Retrieved March 22, 2013, from http://www.scimagojr.com

Central Asia – Research Output Development

SCImago. (2007). SJR — SCImago Journal & Country Rank, Retrieved March 22, 2013, from http://www.scimagojr.com

Central Asia – Research Output by Disciplines

Research Output by Disciplines 2011Research Output by Disciplines 2011

SpringerLink Total Usage: 2005-12

Country Visits 2012

Azerbaijan 30,338

Uzbekistan 15,201

Kazakhstan 78,388

Kyrgyzstan 7,203

Tajikistan 2,536

Turkmenistan 577

SpringerLink Visits

Springer New initiatives

Access to Springer content in the region

•Outstanding and long term relationship

• Acting on behalf of the universities to ensure that scientific content are

widely available to their scientific communities.

• Has an extensive impact on the level of use of scientific content and

enhances scientific research in general

Azerbaijan National Deal

•Develop a program of the very best journals from the region

•Built a growing book program based on the work of the regions leading scientists

– Cooperate with leading institutions

– Springer OPEN Books

– Co-publish journals, book series

– Provide editorial support

• Author workshops

• Publishing infrastructure

• Professional publishing experience

Springer‘s publishing initiative

Subscription Journals - Iran

IF: 3.157 IF: 1.189 IF: 1.500

First Issues Published January 2012

SpringerOpen Journals - Iran

Launched January 2012

Partnerships in KSA

Journals on Topics of Regional and Strategic Importance

IF: 1.141 IF: 0.243

2011 2011

2011

2011 2011 2011

2008 2012

2012

Subscription Journals

2013: Digitize everything

“Digitize all journals going

forward!”

1996

“Digitize most books going

forward!”

2006 2009

“Digitize all books going forward and a lot of books

going backward!”

“Digitize all journals going

backward!”

2004

Journals

1842

Springer-Verlag founded

197,000 articles/yr

5,000 books/yr

Books

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Springer developments

Introducing the Springer Book Archives Project

• A digitized book archive of historic titles dating back to the 1840s;

• 100,000+ Springer eBooks are available at SpringerLink;

• The Springer Book Archives confirms Springer’s commitment to the preservation of valuable scholarly content and the online accessibility thereof.

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(Source: SCImago. (2007). SJR — SCImago Journal & Country Rank, Retrieved Oct 26th, 2012, from http://www.scimagojr.com)

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Sıtkı Aktaş