A Different Open Access Model for Journals
Recent discussion of open-access journals and their financing prompted a reader to share information about a different model for publishers and journals converting to open-access, known as “subscribe-to-open”. Subscribe-to-open hasn’t been discussed much, but it is currently being tried out by De Gruyter Brill, the humanities publisher readers may know for their ancient philosophy journals Phronesis and Apeiron. Reader “C.B.” writes: S2O, as they call it, flips the journal by just asking academic libraries to continue their subscription at something like the current price, and, provided a certain threshold for continued subscriptions is met, makes all articles for the coming year open-access (with no article processing charges, or APC). If libraries cancel their subscription en masse, the threshold isn’t met, and so the journal’s coming year of publications instead remain behind the paywall. Previously published articles, as with most OA flips, remain behind the paywall, to provide institutional libraries with some individual incentive for continued subscription. The major appeal to this model is that it funds OA publication through existing library budgets, rather than disadvantaging those at institutions without new budget line items for APC fees (a worry that was raised in regard to the Journal of the American Philosophical Association), while not requiring the community, or struggling philosophy departments, to pick up the budgetary slack (as has been floated re: Ergo). More specifically relevant to DN readers is that in the coming year the philosophy journals Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie and Analyse und Kritik will be flipped under this model. Here is a link to De Gruyter Brill’s press release promoting the program. I have no horse in the race nor any involvement with De Gruyter Brill (aside from publishing in their journals occasionally), but I thought it might be of some relevance to the discussion. You can read more about subscribe-to-open program here, and here’s a video about it (promotional, but explanatory):
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