October 2, 2025Open Access

An expensive but possible way to do Society OA

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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.

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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 (Wed,) studied this question.

www.synapsesocial.com/papers/68de70f583cbc991d0a235d1 — DOI: https://doi.org/10.59348/4jgzw-jss24

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