In July, we shared a sneak peek at the 2023 market size, based on our annual publisher survey, and we’re currently heads down finalizing our analysis of the trends, along the corresponding revenue for both fully OA and hybrid content. Look for this important update News & Views in mid-October.
We’ll also hold our annual free webinar discussing the numbers and the contextual factors that impact the market on Wednesday, October 30, at 10:00 am US Eastern Time. Register now to hold your place and receive the recording of the session!
Now, back to work!
TOP HEADLINES
Rights Retention Project Retain II launches – August 28, 2024
“A follow-up to SPARC Europe’s Project Retain. Enabling the dissemination of Knowledge has recently been approved by the advocacy programme Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21)…The Retain II project focuses on studying institutional policies in a far wider range of countries in Europe than in the previous project, aiming to promote rights retention.”
Scholarly Societies Advancing OA Publishing: New examples and takeaways – August 9, 2024
“A while back, the Scholastica blog did a high-level analysis of OA publishing approaches not-for-profit society publishers have started implementing in recent years…As the OA landscape continues shaping up, I wanted to explore some of the latest examples of OA publishing models scholarly societies are adopting, how they’re working to advance research equity within those frameworks, and industry learnings.”
Commit to Open: a new initiative to support open access for books – August 7, 2024
“We are pleased to announce a new initiative to support open access for books, Oxford Scholarship Online: Commit to Open…Commit to Open aims to secure funding from libraries and institutions for 30 monographs to be published open access, ensuring that their digital editions are freely available, globally and in perpetuity.”
Pricing framework to foster global equity in scholarly publishing – July 31, 2024
“cOAlition S is pleased to announce the release of a new pricing framework designed to foster global equity in scholarly publishing. Developed by Information Power following consultation with the funder, library/consortium, and publisher communities, the framework is introduced to enable discussion, promote greater transparency and inspire publishers and other service providers to implement more equitable pricing across different economies.”
Landscape study of no-fee open access publishing in Africa – July 22, 2024
“EIFL releases a report, ‘Landscape of no-fee open access publishing in Africa’, that provides an overview of open access (OA) journals in Africa that do not charge fees for either authors or readers (often referred to as Diamond OA journals). The report is based on survey responses from 199 journals, 21 institutional, national and continental platforms that host Diamond OA journals.”
OA JOURNAL LAUNCHES
September 3, 2024 | New Open Access Journals to Showcase Diverse Perspectives on the Future of Their Discipline | “Taylor & Francis has announced the launch of a new series of selective, forward-thinking open access journals which will present diverse perspectives on the complex issues facing our world. Each Critical Insights title is led by recognized experts in the field and will guide authors through the publishing process with high quality editorial support.” |
August 27, 2024 | “IOP Publishing (IOPP) is partnering with the Institute of Systems Engineering (ISE), which is part of the China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP), to launch a new diamond open access (OA) journal dedicated to publishing high-quality research on reliability.” | |
August 14, 2024 | “The Association for Psychological Science (APS) and Sage announce the launch of Advances in Psychological Science Open, a fully open access journal that will publish high-quality empirical, technical, theoretical, and review articles, across the full range of areas and topics in psychological science.” | |
August 12, 2024 | University Libraries Open Publishing launches open-access journal ‘Geomorphica’ | “Penn State University Libraries Open Publishing has launched Geomorphica, a Diamond Open Access journal that promotes discourse and disseminates research in geomorphology, the study of landforms. Geomorphica is the only journal in its field that is free to access, read and publish.” |