Springer & Kluwer - One Company

Springer & Kluwer - One Company

Syed Hasan, Springer Susan Pastore, Kluwer

New Orleans, March 2004

ICOLC 2004

ICOLC 2004: New Orleans

Background of Springer-Verlag

Facts and Figures

The new “Springer”

AgendaAgenda

Background of Kluwer Academic Publishers

The future

Questions and Answers


Background of Springer-Verlag


Springer-Verlag: A Short History

1842 Foundation in Berlin by Julius Springer

from 1960 International Expansion:

Springer-Verlag New York (1964), London (1983),

Tokyo (1983), Paris (1986), Hong Kong (1986)

January 1999 Purchase of the Springer Group of Companies

by Bertelsmann

Foundation of BertelsmannSpringer Science Business

Media

May 2003 Purchase of BertelsmannSpringer by Cinven + Candover

October 2003 Renamed Springer Science + Business Media

2004 New Board of Directors announced for Springer Science

+ Business Media


Imprints and Distribution Arrangements


Background of Kluwer Academic Publishers


Kluwer Academic Publishers: A Short History1889 A.E. Kluwer founded his own publishing house in

Holland. Nearly a century of gradual expansion follows

1970s Company acquires Martinus Nijhoff

Kluwer acquires Dr. W. Junk Publishers noted for its

biological science titles

Kluwer acquires D. Reidel Publishing, a leading publisher

noted for its astronomy, physical sciences,

mathematics and philosophy, leading to the

creation of the current day Kluwer Academic Publishers

1998 Kluwer acquires Plenum Publishers and the prestigious

Russian program

Kluwer acquires Chapman & Hall Publishers

2000 Kluwer acquires Baltzer journals

2003 Candover & Cinven acquires Kluwer Academic

Publishers

Candover & Cinven acquires Bertelsmann Springer

creating Springer Science + Business Media


Facts and Figures


International Presence with focus on the Americas, Europe and Asia

1,500 Employees

Over 500 Journals in print and electronic form

2,500 books published annually

Over 22,500 Books in Print

SPRINGER TODAY

1,900 eBooks

KLUWER TODAY600 Employees

800 eBooks

15,000 Books in Print, 5000 Print

on Demand

1,200 books published annually

Over 670 Journals in print and

electronic form


Number of Journals per Online Library

Type Online LibraryEnglish

LanguageOther

LanguagesSTM Chemical Sciences 102STM Computer Sciences 112 4STM Engineering 136 3STM Environmental Sciences 79 5STM Geosciences 72 4STM Life Sciences 237 3STM Mathematics 140 2STM Medicine 227 75STM Physics & Astronomy 93STM Psychology 49 1HSS Economics 114 7HSS Education 35HSS Humanities 16HSS Law 18 9HSS Linguistics 16HSS Philosophy 26 1HSS Social Sciences 43


Total: 52Total: 52

Worldwide Consortia arrangements

2003: 1702002: 1672001: 68

2003: 1002002: 66 2001: 45

2000: 35 2000: 252000: 51999: 12


OverviewOverview

# of Journals Over 500 Over 670

# of Articles avail. 300,000+ 250,000+

2003 Article downloads 10,000,000 7,000,000

Back issues as of 1996 as of 1997


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Usage Trends


SV-London

SV-New York

SV-Heidelberg

SV-Vienna

Other Springer-Verlag Offices in Paris, Milano, New Delhi,

Hong Kong

SV-Tokyo

Other Companies include Key Curriculum Press-Berkeley,

Princeton Architecture Press-New York, Steinkopff-

Darmstadt, Physica-Verlag-Heidelberg,

Total: 52Total: 52

Springer-Verlag and Kluwer Publishing Companies everywhere

KAP-New York

KAP-Boston

KAP-London

KAP-Taipei

KAP-DortrechtKAP-Moscow


The new “Springer”


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Springer & Kluwer - One Company


New Global Structure/Members


Peter HendriksSales & Marketing

Prior to Springer: CEO KAP

Dr. Ulrich VestCFO

Prior to Springer: Member of the Board BS

Martin MosCOO

Prior to Springer: CFO Elsevier Science

Rüdiger GebauerSTM Publishing

Prior to Springer: Deputy MD BS

Derk HaankCEO

Prior to Springer: CEO Reed Elsevier

Gregor Karolus

Human Resources

STM Board Members


Unified Platform – Goal: December 2004

Seamless roll-out of one Global Integrated Site (Goal: end 2004)

Added functionality and enhancements – librarian input

-Keyword Alerting

-Personalized Features

-Full Search Engine

Usage Reporting Upgrades (Counter Compliant) – librarian input

Increased Reliability-Multiple servers, guaranteed availability

Cross Reference Linking-KAP and SV are charter members of CrossRef

Platform


Contracts/Agreements

ALL current SV and KAP contracts will be honored to expiration date

Contracts up for renewal will be rolled into new “Springer” arrangements

Negotiations for renewal agreements for 2005 will start early fall 2004

Pricing

No price increases will occur as a result of the merger

2005 journal prices will be available in July 2004

All current price caps and consortia contracts will be honored

Policies


Commitment to the Customer

Dedicated business support staff for customer service issues

1-800 line and online support

Expanded sales team-Experienced in STM arena

Informational e-mails or alerts on a timely basis

Customer input option on website

The customer comes first.


The future


Digitizing Content:

The Company is committed to digitizing all content- Over 12 million pages of

content to be digitized

Retro-digitizing back files of journals in process – target date of December

2004 set as completion date

Books are being digitized for both e-book production and Print on Demand

publication.

Archival arrangements are a priority and further developments will be

announced shortly

Projects


New Library Advisory Board to be formed

Selected experts (librarians/consortia members) will be invited

The Board will work with a committee at Springer to advise on

many details of the merged Company, current issues and policy

changes

The Board and Springer will have an open forum policy for

frank discussions and points of interest

Library Advisory Board


Thank youSyed Hasan

[email protected]

(212) 460-1739

Susan Pastore

[email protected]

(781) 681-0501

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