UK Royal Society adopts ‘subscribe to open’ publishing model

"The UK Royal Society is converting eight of its journals to the ‘subscribe to open’ (S2O) publishing model, starting next year. The non-profit publisher, which produces ten titles, including the world’s first peer-reviewed journals, announced the decision today.

The S2O model makes the content a journal publishes in a given year free to access and publish, as long as enough libraries commit to paying an annual subscription fee. Without sufficient subscriptions, a journal will continue to charge publishing fees — known as article-processing charges (APCs)."