cOAllition S emphasizes that support for its Transformative Journal programme will cease by the end of this year.
https://www.coalition-s.org/blog/transformative-journals-analysis-from-the-2023-reports/
Is there an argument that even this is too late?
That a lot of damage has already been done through:
1) @cOAlitionS_OA's tacit positioning of APCs as the main model for paying for open access, the enshrining of this model, and the introduction of it in places where it did not operate previously?
2) the embedding of this APC model in some organisational budgets?
3) the ensuing extraction of large amounts of money from the higher education system over the period between the launch of cOAllition S in 2018 and the end of this programme 2024?
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Transformative Journals: analysis from the 2023 reports | Plan S
<p>Introduction The Transformative Journal (TJ) model was one of the strategies cOAlition S developed to help subscription publishers transition to full and immediate Open Access (OA) in a defined timeframe. This report looks at the data provided by the participating publishers for the calendar year 2023. 2023 data: executive summary Journals that participate in the TJ […]</p>