Open AccessSubscribe to Open: Modeling an open access transformation
Author(s) -
Allison Langham-Putrow,
Sunshine J. Carter
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
college and research libraries news
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 2150-6698
pISSN - 0099-0086
DOI - 10.5860/crln.81.1.18
Subject(s) - plan (archaeology) , payment , open source , computer science , open research , open data , telecommunications , political science , business , world wide web , geography , operating system , software , archaeology
The introduction of Plan S, an initiative for open access launched by a group of primarily European national funding agencies and two foundations in late 2018, prompted discussion about how publishers will transition to full open access. Many current open access models involve article processing charge (APC) payments. Here we describe an alternative model, Subscribe to Open (S2O).