Springer to move science publishing to India
By agencies   |   Thursday, 15 September 2005, 19:30 IST
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BANGALORE: Buoyed with the quality of work being done in India, Germany based scientific publisher Springer Science Media will move more science publishing to India. Derk Haank, CEO, Springer said “given the high quality and high productivity, we are now expanding our other business process beyond typical production work and into services for the financial and marketing sectors.” “There is no end of the possibilities. It has been my experience that the energy and enthusiasm present here, combined with a “can do attitude” has exceeded my expectations,” he added. He said at present a quarter of the publishing and editing work is being done out of India and he wants that to rise to almost 50 percent besides getting two-thirds of scientific and one-third of business media work done from India. “In addition to outsourcing work, seeing the kind of work we are getting in India we are seriously looking at buying a local company for which we are actively scouting,” he said adding out of the 5000 employees in 19 countries, about 1200 are present in India alone and will be doubled in a short time. “India is not only important for us in terms of researchers who seek to publish and become our authors, but we are also seeing an increase in subscriptions which is well above average,” Haank added.

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