Open Library of Humanities aims to ‘flip’ journals to open access | Times Higher Education (THE)

"It sounds like something that might happen to a secret agent who changes sides after capture. After the mass resignation of its editorial board last month in protest against its publisher’s pricing policy, the linguistics journal Lingua is being 'flipped' from a paid-for subscription model to a new kind of open access model under a different publisher. Lingua is perhaps the highest profile recent defector in the war between for-profit publishers who sell paywalled journals – in this case Elsevier – and advocates who want published research to be freely accessible, and object to publishers’ substantial profit margins, or both. Open access is not a new idea in academia. But the Lingua defection is significant for two reasons. First, it is a humanities journal – the natural sciences are generally perceived to have led the way when it comes to open access. And second, Lingua is defecting to the Open Library of Humanities (OLH), which was formally launched at the end of September and which has, its founders say, a unique open access model ..."