Project MUSE Receives $75,000 Mellon Grant to Study Subscribe to Open (S2O) Model For Open Access Journals | LJ infoDOCKET

Project MUSE, the massive online collection of journal and book content based at Johns Hopkins University, has received a $75,000 planning grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Public Knowledge Program to study the innovative business model for open access journal publishing known as “Subscribe to Open.” The grant, called “MUSE Open: S2O” and led by Project MUSE director Wendy Queen, will focus on developing a financially sustainable approach to open journal publishing in the humanities and social sciences that offers an alternative to “author-pays” models, thereby expanding both author and reader access and equity.