Subscribe To Open: Annual Reviews' Take on Open Access

peter.suber's bookmarks 2019-04-03

Summary:

"Annual Reviews is keen to pursue open access (OA), believing its content to be of wide general interest, but does not consider APCs to be a viable route. The reviews are invited, and it can take three or four months to write them, so the publisher feels that it is not appropriate to present the author with a bill/invoice to publish. In addition, Annual Reviews authors rarely cite funder support, closing off the most obvious source of APC-based funding.

Instead, the staff of Annual Reviews want existing library subscription payments for gated access journals to be leveraged and then retained to convert and sustain the journals as OA. They are putting the idea to the test with a program called Subscribe to Open...."

Link:

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2019/04/02/subscribe-to-open/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.business_models oa.journals oa.conversions oa.sustainability oa.economics_of

Date tagged:

04/03/2019, 17:18

Date published:

04/03/2019, 13:18