Changing with the times: our evolving approach to open access

"Our original goal to achieve 100% OA by 2028 was firmly aligned with our mission to help chemists to make the world a better place. Open access was, and remains, central to that mission: providing free, unrestricted global access to cutting-edge research accelerates the pace of discovery, enhancing our ability to tackle the most pressing global challenges, from disease to climate change.

Although we are moving away from a single pathway to open – via a complete portfolio of OA journals - our goal remains to build an inclusive, sustainable OA future, ensuring that all authors, regardless of geography or funding, can take advantage of publishing their work as openly as possible....

The resounding message we heard over and over is that one size cannot fit all: that while some regions are steaming ahead with fully OA, others are embracing their own ways to achieve openness and yet others are not yet ready for fully OA. It became clear that we needed to adapt our vision for openness to account for a landscape that is increasing in complexity and no longer coalescing around a single direction for open research...."