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October 2, 20250 citationsOpen Access

An expensive but possible way to do Society OA

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MEMartin Paul EveUniversity College Dublin

Key Points

  • Moving to an open-access model can serve societies better, yet implementing this is complex.
  • Learned societies consider jettisoning 100,000 EUR from a subscription publisher, eliminating author fees.
  • Discussions about transitioning reveal various obstacles, particularly in reforming the current business model.
  • The exploration of open-access highlights significant financial challenges that require thoughtful strategies.

Abstract

A Learned Society spoke to me last week about what they could do to move to an open-access model. They currently receive about 100,000 EUR per year from their subscription/hybrid-OA publisher but were willing to jettison this (!) if they could go OA with no author fees. The problem was that implementing a new business model was a total pain.

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Martin Paul Eve (2019) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68de70f583cbc991d0a235d1https://doi.org/10.59348/4jgzw-jss24
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  1. 1How Learned Societies Could Flip to Open Access, With No Author-Facing Charges, Using a Consortial Model2018
  2. 2Pondering a solution to the problem of Learned Societies and the transition to open access2014
  3. 3Learned Societies, Open Access and Budgetary Cross-Subsidy2019
  4. 4Consortial funding and downward price pressure for open access2016
  5. 5Transparent OA pricing policy from the Royal Society2010