Learned Societies, the key to realising an open access future?
« Plan S, a funder led initiative to drive open access to research, will have significant impacts on the ways in which academics publish and communicate their research. However, beyond simply changing the way academics disseminate their research, it will also influence how learned societies, the organisations tasked with representing academics in particular disciplines, operate, as many currently depend on revenues from journal subscriptions to cross-subsidise their activities. In this post Alicia Wise and Lorraine Estelle explore this issue and provide an update from the first phase of the SPA-OPS project that has been tasked with assessing the options available for learned societies to make the transition to open access. (…) »
source > blogs.lse.ac.uk, Alicia Wise, Lorraine Estelle, 24 juin 2019
