🚀 Big news from EMS Press at #UKSG2026 🚀

Today we unveiled Launch to Open (L2O), a new open access model built around community support and financial transparency.

Launching with:
• Foundations of Computational Mathematics
• Archiv der Mathematik

Subscriptions are now open for 2027.

https://ems.press/updates/2026-03-30-ems-press-unveils-l2o

#OpenAccess #OA #LaunchToOpen #L2O #SubscribetoOpen #AcademicPublishing

Some simple spreadsheet research using @OpenAlex and the R package openalexR

Counting from 2020 to 2025, there have been over 58,000 items published under the Subscribe to Open model and it's roughly doubling every year.

#S2O #SubscribeToOpen

Fans Of Open Access, Unite: You Have Nothing To Lose But Your Chained Libraries

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/19/fans-of-open-access-unite-you-have-nothing-to-lose-but-your-chained-libraries/

Fans of open access, unite: you have nothing to lose but your chained libraries

When books were rare and extremely expensive, they were often chained to the bookcase to prevent people walking off with them, in what were known as “chained libraries”. Copyright serves a similar purpose today, even though, thanks to the miracle of perfect, zero-cost digital copies, it is possible simultaneously to take an ebook home and yet leave the original behind. For a quarter of a […]

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https://walledculture.org/fans-of-open-access-unite-you-have-nothing-to-lose-but-your-chained-libraries/

Over 374 journals now using the Subscribe to Open (S2O) business model to provide open access to the research articles they publish.

https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Subscribe_to_Open_(S2O)_journals

It used to be true that all the S2O journals were fee-free, but unfortunately some 'variants' have arisen in which there are author-side page charges. I have added a column to the wiki to indicate which charge author-side fees.

#SubscribeToOpen #S2O

Despite major challenges, all six maths journals from EDP Sciences & SMAI will stay Open Access in 2025 through Subscribe to Open (S2O).

Many thanks to all libraries and partners who maintained support — your backing is crucial.

https://bit.ly/4jxGmYh

#OpenAccess #S2O #SubscribeToOpen #Mathematics #RoadToOpen

Thank you to @degruyter_pub for converting the _Journal of Perinatal Medicine_ to #OpenAccess under the #SubscribeToOpen model.
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/jpm-2025-0009/html

#DiamondOA #ScholComm