Academic-Led Journal Highlight: Interview with Timothy Gowers

"The call for academy-owned open access (OA) journals is getting louder. Today, more scholars and institutions are launching and supporting academic-led journals in order to introduce alternatives to subscription journals and create competition to force down OA article processing charges, which corporate publishers have been increasing upwards of 6% a year. The transition to online publishing is making it easier than ever for members of the academic community to start journals and even flip subscription titles to academy-owned OA models, and they’re showing that they can publish at a fraction of the cost of their corporate counterparts."