Springer Expands Open Access Program to E-books

Springer announced this week that it has expanded its open access (OA) publishing program to include a full open access option for e- books. The move further extends Springer’s embrace of open access—which includes its SpringerOpen journals program, and BioMed Central, the pioneering open access journal portfolio, which it acquired in 2008. “Books are the next logical focus in the progression of open access,” said Eelco Ferwerda, director of the Directory of Open Access Books and the OAPEN Foundation, in a statement. “This initiative from Springer helps to establish open access as a viable publishing model for scholarly books.”