It is exciting to see publishers willing to take a fresh look at their economic model with an eye towards transparency, open content, and fairness. Our library is committed to support transitional and transformative models that move us to a sustainable world of high-quality information that is available equitably to everyone on the planet, and the Subscribe to Open model aligns perfectly with these values. Annual Reviews has given us a model that is easy to support.” – Jeff Kosokoff, Assistant University Librarian for Collection Strategy, Duke University Libraries
To encourage diversity in the scholarly publishing landscape, we need fresh thinking about models to support and sustain academy-friendly solutions. Nonprofit subscription journals in the social sciences and humanities—lacking the disciplinary culture and research funding to support article-fee models—face particular challenges converting to OA.
Annual Review’s Subscribe to Open introduces a reliable funding model that will allow nonprofit publishers to transition from conventional subscriptions to open access. The Subscribe to Open model provides a viable route to opening a vast corpus of gated research output, without increasing costs for libraries or reducing revenue for trusted publishers. SPARC congratulates Annual Reviews for championing such an innovative model.” – Heather Joseph, Executive Director, SPARC
Libraries know as well as anyone the quality of Annual Reviews’ content and the positive global impact it would have if it were published open access. With their new Subscribe to Open program, Annual Reviews has developed a straight forward way for libraries to help make this happen. All a library has to do is agree to participate, for which they receive a discount, and then, if participation levels are sufficient, the journals flip to open. Simple, effective, important.” – Curtis Brundy, Iowa State University
– Jeff MacKie-Mason, University Librarian, Chief Digital Scholarship Officer, Professor, School of Information and Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley
– Colleen Campbell, Open Access 2020 Initiative