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🚀 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

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 […]

#analogue #ao3 #archives #diamondOpenAccess #digital #fanFiction #libraries #metadata #openAccess #publishers #reputation #reviews #royalSociety #s20 #subscribeToOpen #trueFans

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

The recording of the OASPA deep-dive into 'Subscribe to Open' aka S2O is now up https://www.oaspa.org/events/wayfinders-4-a-deep-dive-into-s2o-subscribe-to-open/

Really worth checking this out if you're not familiar with S2O.

The key thing to remember with S2O is that authors can make their work open access with no author-side fees under this model - it doesn't matter what your affiliation is. Enabling truly equitable open access. Diamond OA is best, but S2O is a pragmatic middle-ground and worthy of supporting too...

#S2O #SubscribeToOpen #OASPA

Kudos to @AnnualReviews for converting the first 15 journal volumes of the year to #OpenAccess.
https://scienmag.com/conversion-to-open-access-using-equitable-new-model-sees-upsurge-in-usage-of-expert-scientific-knowledge/

#Usage rose sharply: "Article access doubled or tripled and continues to rise, with usage not just from subscribers but from local governments and businesses, foundations, professionals and interested members of society [#lay readers]. The increase of usage in low- or middle-income countries (#LMIC) is especially notable."

#SubscribeToOpen #S2O

Kudos to @AnnualReviews for converting the first 15 journal volumes of the year to #OpenAccess.
https://scienmag.com/conversion-to-open-access-using-equitable-new-model-sees-upsurge-in-usage-of-expert-scientific-knowledge/

#Usage rose sharply: "Article access doubled or tripled and continues to rise, with usage not just from subscribers but from local governments and businesses, foundations, professionals and interested members of society [#lay readers]. The increase of usage in low- or middle-income countries (#LMIC) is especially notable."

#SubscribeToOpen #S2O

Kudos to @AnnualReviews for converting the first 15 journal volumes of the year to #OpenAccess.
https://scienmag.com/conversion-to-open-access-using-equitable-new-model-sees-upsurge-in-usage-of-expert-scientific-knowledge/

#Usage rose sharply: "Article access doubled or tripled and continues to rise, with usage not just from subscribers but from local governments and businesses, foundations, professionals and interested members of society [#lay readers]. The increase of usage in low- or middle-income countries (#LMIC) is especially notable."

#SubscribeToOpen #S2O