Impact of Social Sciences – Subscriptions no longer needed: flipping journals to Open Access while supporting existing OA publications

"It was with great pleasure that we announced that the Open Library of Humanities now has its first journal joining that has moved away from a subscription model to a pure gold OA basis. This makes me very happy. The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry is a niche publication in the humanities that holds great value to its target audience. While it was never the most expensive journal for institutions to purchase (small steps at first), to begin to offset the amount paid into the OLH by subscriptions that will no longer be needed forms part of our transition model ..."