Furthering Open Access: A Conversation With Alicia Wise- ATG Original - Against the Grain

"All the publishers I know are very actively working on OA. In fact, last year when we did the Society Publishers Accelerating OA and Plan S project for cOAlition S I was surprised that a couple of our project participants had no OA journals. These were quite small humanities to and social science publishers. OA is here to stay and is an established and growing feature of every publisher’s market. 

Will your readers enjoy a fish simile? Elsevier and other large publishers are like fish swimming in the sunlight zone of the ocean: they are very visible to librarians and other stakeholders in scholarly communication. Recently we’ve been doing quite a lot of work with smaller independent publishers of all kinds. These are like fish swimming in the twilight zone of the ocean: also beautiful, strong, and varied but less visible. In these waters there are many potential OA shoalmates for librarians  with very similar missions and serving the same researchers. ..."