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22.09.2023
Open Access and Sales Revenue Can Co-Exist
« The transition towards open access (OA) varies across publication type, research field, and geography. For example, in STEM publishing, Individual…05.07.2023
What direct support is available for open-access Diamond journals? Funding models and arrangements for implementation
« This study is mainly based on a questionnaire survey which was sent to over a thousand Diamond journals and…22.06.2023
CNRS | Alain Schuhl, directeur général délégué à la science : Frais de publication : « nous sommes au bord du gouffre »
« La publication d’articles scientifiques en accès ouvert immédiat s’accomplit de plus en plus souvent moyennant le paiement de frais de…01.06.2023
Butler, Leigh-Ann. « Funding the Business of Open Access: A Bibliometric Analysis of Article Processing Charges, Research Funding, and the Revenues of the Oligopoly of Publishers » [thesis]
« Since the early 2010s, more than half of peer-reviewed journal articles have been published by the so-called oligopoly of academic…13.04.2023
Articles scientifiques : nouveaux modèles économiques et nouvelles formes de publication [vidéo]
« Serge Bauin, expert en publications à la direction des données ouvertes de la recherche (DDOR) du CNRS, présente un état…24.03.2023
Karger pilots Subscribe to Open model
« Karger Publishers is piloting the new Open Access model Subscribe to Open to help pave the way for a broader,…15.02.2023
Knowledge Exchange: Call for entries to explore Alternative Publishing Platforms
« Knowledge Exchange (KE) invites any platforms working in open access, publishing and communication who wishes…20.01.2023
DIAMAS – Supporting high quality Diamond Open Access publishing [podcast]
« An introduction to the project DIAMAS, aimed at investigating and supporting “diamond” open access publishing models, i.e. free for the…01.12.2022
The sustainability argument or… How academic journals economic models never really last
« The starting point for this post is an article from Scholarly Kitchen in which, once again, the…15.11.2022
Operationalising Open Research Europe as a collective publishing enterprise
« This is an independent expert study commissioned in the context of the ERA to support the future development of…11.10.2022
Strengthening ROR’s sustainability model
« Since its launch in 2019, ROR has been charting a unique path toward sustainability. In this blog post, we want…16.09.2022
Removing author fees can help open access journals make research available to everyone
« Open access (OA) journals are academic, peer-reviewed journals that are free and available for anyone to read without paying subscription…12.08.2022
Article Processing Charges (APCs) and the new enclosure of research
« In 2020 we estimate the annual revenues from article processing charges (APCs) among major scholarly journal publishers to have exceeded…02.08.2022
Opening the Future: How to Implement an Equitable Revenue Model for Open Access Monographs
« (…) That report describes a variation on the journal ‘Subscribe to Open’ model whereby members ‘subscribe to a backlist, with…21.07.2022
The Cost to Publish TOME Monographs: A Preliminary Report
« A study of the costs incurred by university presses in publishing scholarly monographs through the TOME (Toward an Open Monograph…23.06.2022
La SMF (Société mathématique de France) s’engage dans la science ouverte
« Depuis 1873, la SMF édite des livres et des revues de mathématiques en conciliant indépendance, prix modérés et pérennité économique.31.05.2022
Should open access lead to closed research? The trends towards paying to perform research
« Open Access (OA) emerged as an important transition in scholarly publishing worldwide during the past two decades. So far, this…21.04.2022
Alternative Publishing Platforms
« Research findings have traditionally been published as peer-reviewed academic articles, monographs and edited collection, proceedings, or…30.03.2022
Wissenschaftsrat | German Science and Humanities Council (2022): Recommendations on the Transformation of Academic Publishing: Towards Open Access
« Academic publishing has witnessed major changes in the context of digitalisation. Driven by the academic community, the changeover to open…18.03.2022
EDP Sciences and SMAI Subscribe-to-Open mathematics programme receives support from the CNRS
We are pleased to announce that the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France) has pledged…16.02.2022
OA Leaders on Advancing the BOAI: Interview with Dr. Johan Rooryck
In honor of the 20th anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), Scholastica reached out to OA leaders to…16.02.2022
The business model of Finnish Literature Society
« The Finnish Literature Society (SKS) was founded in 1831 and has a long tradition of supporting and advancing studies in…16.02.2022
The business model of Helsinki University Press
« Helsinki University Press (HUP) is a young press, founded in 2017. The first OA book was published by HUP at…28.10.2021
The Challenge of Building Structural Equity in Open Access Publishing – from a Small Publisher Perspective
« The theme for the International Open Access Week in 2021 is ‘Building Structural Equity’. Equity for everyone is a challenge…27.09.2021
Atelier DIALOGU’IST#11 – Science ouverte : du modèle économique à l’évaluation des résultats – 30 Novembre 2021
« Après plusieurs sessions consacrées aux données de recherche, le groupe de travail DIALOGU’IST du réseau RENATIS propose…25.08.2021
Jisc licence subscriptions manager goes live for Liverpool University Press Opening the Future initiative
« Liverpool University Press (LUP) and the COPIM project are pleased to announce a partnership…11.08.2021
Bring your OA game « Libraries, publishers, and innovation for OA books: a European perspective »
« The end of June 2021 marked the finishing line for the OPERAS-P project, a European Union funded giant,…30.07.2021
Subscribe to Open (S2O): An Interview Post in Two Parts (Part 1 and Part 2)
« There is no shortage of creative thought across publishers and librarians on new publishing business models. From my perch, where…09.07.2021
The Changing Landscape of Open Access Publishing: Can Open Access Publishing Make the Scholarly World More Equitable and Productive?
« Almost 50% of scholarly articles are now open access in some form. This greatly benefits scholars at most institutions and…03.06.2021
Announcing arXiv’s updated sustainability model
« In collaboration with the Membership Advisory Board and arXiv’s leadership team, we’re pleased to announce arXiv’s updated…10.05.2021
EDP Sciences- Société de mathématiques appliquées et industrielles (SMAI): Subscribe-to-Open 2021 Transparency Report published
« Report details costs and prices related to the EDP Sciences-SMAI Subscribe-to-Open pilot program for mathematics journals As advocates of…06.05.2021
Open Library of Humanities Renews Agreement with Jisc Collections, Aims to Flip More Titles to Not-for-Profit, No-Fee Open Access
« The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is pleased to announce that we have renewed our agreement with Jisc Collections to…05.05.2021
The promise of collaboration: collective funding models and the integration of Open Access books into libraries
« This report tackles a simple question: how can open access books be more successfully integrated into scholarly libraries? While there…30.04.2021
Why hybrid journals do not lead to full and immediate Open Access
« In this brief note, we formulate 6 arguments that articulate why cOAlition S Organisations will not financially support the hybrid…30.04.2021
New Open Access Business Models — What’s Needed to Make Them Work?
« The third CHORUS Forum meeting, held last week, is a relatively new entrant into the scholarly communication…28.04.2021
The Seismica Initiative: towards a community-driven, Diamond Open Access journal for seismological research
« (…) Volcanica (www.jvolcanica.org) has been accepting submissions for two years now, and at this time of writing…28.04.2021
cOAlition S endorses the Subscribe to Open (S2O) model of funding open access
« Using existing budget and subscription processes without imposing paywalls, S2O provides a rapid route to open access that is applicable…08.04.2021
Quel modèle économique et quels modèles de revenus pour l’édition de monographies en Open Access aux Editions de L’Université de Lorraine ?
« Cyril Czernielewski, élève conservateur des bibliothèques de l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Sciences de l’Information et des Bibliothèques, s’est penché sur…09.03.2021
For a Change: Let’s Make a Change! OPERAS Survey on Collaborative Models for Open Access Books
« (…) We are launching a survey of publishing organisations throughout Europe to identify and better understand existing and potential business…25.02.2021
A joint project of Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and Knowledge Unlatched receives funding from BMBF
« (…) The project develops a sustainable model of publisher-independent, quality-assured OA journals in small, transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary subjects. In this…10.02.2021
PLOS Adopts Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink® for Scientific Communications to Manage New Community Action Publishing Model
« (…) The Public Library of Science (PLOS) announced today it is using RightsLink® for…29.01.2021
Critères QUERO – Préconisations pour la qualité des revues scientifiques : Science ouverte, bonnes pratiques éditoriales et référencement
« Ces critères s’inspirent en grande partie d’un état de l’art international sur le sujet et ont fait l’objet d’une mise…12.01.2021
Wiley Acquires Hindawi: An Interview with Judy Verses and Liz Ferguson
« Last week John Wiley & Sons announced its acquisition of open access (OA) publisher Hindawi Limited for $298M. While…12.01.2021
Eleanor Masterman. « ‘Communists of Knowledge’? A case for the implementation of ‘radical open access’ in the humanities and social sciences »[thesis]
« Open access (OA) has widely been touted as a ‘radical’ alternative to the traditional scholarly publishing system, which has faced…07.01.2021
Can Publishers Maintain Control of the Scholarly Record?
« The journal brand has proven to be the great intangible asset of the scholarly publisher. It signals…scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org, Danielle Cooper, Oya Y. Rieger, Roger C. Schonfeld, 6 janvier 2021
10.12.2020
Adoption of the Open Access Business Model in Scientific Journal Publishing: A Cross-disciplinary Study
« Scientific journal publishers have rapidly converted during the past 25 years to predominantly electronic dissemination, but the reader-pays business model…crl.acrl.org, Bo-Christer Björk, Timo Korkeamäki, 2020, https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.81.7.1080
03.12.2020
EGU journals per-paper APC pilot
« EGU journals currently calculate article processing charges (APCs) based on a cost per page of the final published journal article.24.11.2020
Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) joins OLH LPS model
« We are very pleased to announce that the Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership…16.11.2020
Partner with PeerJ to build a new ecosystem for society publishing
« Earlier this year we wrote about a renewed focus on community at PeerJ. This post is…26.10.2020
Central European University Press Announces Innovative Open Access Funding Model
« In line with international movements towards making academic content Open Access (OA), both for journals and books, and in keeping…15.10.2020
IWA Publishing (International Water Association Publishing) Launches Pilot to Flip its Entire Journal Portfolio to Open Access Using the Subscribe-to-Open Mode
« IWA Publishing, the wholly owned publishing subsidiary of the International Water Association based in London, UK, has announced a pilot…07.10.2020
Innovative Open Access in small sciences (InnOAccess)
« Academia – especially internet research – strives on a dynamic and diverse publishing ecosystem within which researchers can read and…22.07.2020
Aidez-nous à mieux connaître les revues en accès ouvert qui ne facturent pas de frais de publication
« Le consortium OPERAS et ses partenaires lancent une enquête destinée à mieux comprendre les revues en accès ouvert qui ne…20.07.2020
Labour of Love: An Open Access Manifesto for Freedom, Integrity, and Creativity in the Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences
« Over the next decade, Open Access (OA) is likely to become the default in scholarly…16.07.2020
What Do Libraries Keep When They Cancel the Big Deal?
« There are so many questions one can ask. Do more generous green open access policies carve out the value of…scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, 14 juillet 2020
09.06.2020
Exploring collaborative non-commercial publishing models for Open Access: tender results
« cOAlition S received a total of 11 proposals for the tender for a study to explore…12.05.2020
AmeliCA/Canadian Research Knowledge Network/Coalition Publica/OpenAIRE webinar: Cooperative Non-APC Publishing Models
« In this joint AmeliCA/Canadian Research Knowledge Network/Coalition Publica/OpenAIRE webinar, Arianna Becerril-García (AmeliCA, Latin America) talks about AmeliCA and the vital…03.04.2020
Beyond transformative agreements
« The Swedish Bibsam Consortium is taking a leading role in the transition to Open Access and aims to switch from…eua.eu, Anna Lundén, Astrid Söderbergh Widding, Britt-Marie Wideberg, Wilhelm Widmark, 2 avril 2020
27.03.2020
Exploring collaborative non-commercial publishing models for Open Access: Apply to perform a study
« cOAlition S publishes today, 27 March 2020, a call for an informed study containing an analysis and overview of collaborative…09.03.2020
Open Access eXchange (OAeX): an economic model and platform for fundraising open scholarship services
« This article describes the Open Access eXchange (OAeX) project, a pragmatic and comprehensive economic model and fundraising platform for open…27.02.2020
Un guide de recommandations relatif à la politique tarifaire des infrastructures de recherche
« La Direction Générale de la Recherche et de l’Innovation a publié en 2019 les coûts complets des infrastructures de recherche…10.02.2020