Open Access Publishing in Mathematics

The last few years have borne witness to a number of important changes within the scholarly communication sphere that have the potential to radically disrupt research at large, and mathematics in particular. Researcher and institutional dissatisfaction with traditional journal subscriptions and so-called “Big Deals” have taken the Open Access movement from grassroots activism to politically mandated regulation. The announcement in 2018 of Plan S, an initiative launched by an international consortium of research funders (including the European Commission and the European Research Council) with the explicit aim of making all publicly funded research Open Access, has rapidly accelerated publisher plans to embrace Open Access models of publication.