Subscribe to Open (S2O) is an economic model used by peer-reviewed scholarly journals to provide readers with open access (OA) to the journal’s content, without charging costs to authors. S2O converts journals that have a traditional subscription model to open access.[1][2][3]
When the academic libraries subscribing to a journal are asked to renew their subscriptions to the journal, they are told that, with the libraries’ support, the journal will be made open access to all readers, while authors are able to publish in it at no cost. If enough libraries renew on these terms, the journal is converted to open access, and if not, access to the journal remains restricted to subscribing libraries.[1][2][3]
- ^ a b Crow, Raym; Gallagher, Richard; Naim, Kamran (2020). "Subscribe to Open: A practical approach for converting subscription journals to open access". Learned Publishing. 33 (2): 181–185. doi:10.1002/leap.1262. ISSN 1741-4857. S2CID 208113282.
- ^ a b Ruimy, Anne; Henri, Agnès Henri; Veber, Amandine (April 2021). "EDP Sciences-SMAI Subscribe-to-Open program 2021 Transparency Report" (PDF). EDP Sciences. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 January 2022. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
- ^ a b Langham-Putrow, Allison; Carter, Sunshine J. (6 January 2020). "Subscribe to Open: Modeling an open access transformation". College & Research Libraries News. 81: 18. doi:10.5860/crln.81.1.18. S2CID 213288994. Archived from the original on 7 January 2022. Retrieved 12 May 2022.