Berghahn Journals opening up its 2024 volumes

"Berghahn Journals is delighted to announce that all 2024 volumes in our Berghahn Open Anthro – Subscribe-to-Open (BOA-S2O) collection will be open access.

The BOA-S2O collection, which now includes 16 journals, is in its fifth year thanks to the continued support of the library community. Now with over 50 collections level participants and 300 title level participants on board, we have published over 850 open access research articles from over 60 countries. Together with the other scholarly outputs published by these journals, over 1,900 authors have been able to publish open access without paying APCs. We continue to see significant usage increases due to the expanded discoverability and accessibility. Furthermore, we have been able to expand the collection by adding two renowned society journals: Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale (published on behalf the European Association of Social Anthropologists) in 2022 and Ethnologia Europaea (published on behalf of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore) in 2024.

For the BOA-S2O titles to remain open in 2025 and beyond, continuous renewal support is essential. Libraries must continue to renew their subscriptions each year to support the cost of journal publication without author-facing charges. Participating libraries receive backfile access with an active subscription and ‘guaranteed open access’ benefits for their researchers which ensures Gold Open Access status should the threshold not be met for a particular year...."