{"id":284,"date":"2008-05-30T21:50:16","date_gmt":"2008-05-31T01:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=278"},"modified":"2008-05-30T21:50:16","modified_gmt":"2008-05-31T01:50:16","slug":"open-access-at-springer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/30\/open-access-at-springer\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Access at Springer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite some philosophical\/moral issues, I do a fair amount of work with commercial publishers.  I just was co-Program Chair for the <a href=\"http:\/\/contraintes.inria.fr\/CPAIOR08\/\">CPAIOR<\/a> conference, and was delighted to publish the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/computer\/mathematics\/book\/978-3-540-68154-0\">conference volume<\/a> in Springers <em>Lecture Notes in Computer Science<\/em> series (despite the fact that LNCS has been dropped from the ISI indexing).  I am considering starting a journal with Elsivier.  Overall, while I prefer journals offered by professional societies (like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informs.org\">INFORMS<\/a>), I recognize the role commercial publishers play in supporting a field.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I was taken aback by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/\">Springer<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;attempt&#8221; at open access when I recently had a paper accepted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/business\/operations+research\/journal\/10479\"><em>Annals of Operations Research<\/em><\/a>.  I had the option to make the paper open access.  Here is what I was offered:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Upon publication, your article will be available to all subscribers of this journal. If that is what you want, click the button <strong>&#8216;No Open Access\u2019<\/strong> below. However, if you want your article to be available to everyone, wherever they are, whether they subscribe or not, then you should publish with Open Access. Springer operates a program called <strong>Open Choice<\/strong> that offers authors the option of having their articles published with Open Access in exchange for an article processing fee. The standard fee is <strong>US$3000<\/strong>. If you want to order Open Access, please click the button <strong>\u2018Yes, I order Open Access\u2019<\/strong> below.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fascinating, and somewhat appalling (though I might feel differently if I was paying in euros).  I wonder if they <em>ever<\/em> get anyone to take that choice.   I actually now feel worse about publishing with Springer:  I would rather they simply take the position that publishing with them involves a transfer of copyright than to be offered such terms.  It looks to me that this is just an attempt to provide an &#8220;open access&#8221; veneer rather than a serious attempt to face the intellectual property issues of commercial publishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite some philosophical\/moral issues, I do a fair amount of work with commercial publishers. I just was co-Program Chair for the CPAIOR conference, and was delighted to publish the conference volume in Springers Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (despite the fact that LNCS has been dropped from the ISI indexing). I am considering starting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/30\/open-access-at-springer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Open Access at Springer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intellectual-property"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}