Avoiding the Seventy Year Itch: ‘Transformative’ Open Access via Diamond Funding Models

Description

The Jisc review of transitional agreements, and its 70-year transformation estimate, necessitates rethinking current approaches to OA journal funding. OA book publishers have had to grapple with the funding question later than journals due to slower policy changes, taking different approaches (outside of BPCs), including various collective/subscription models that support Diamond OA. We outline some of these approaches, and how they can be used to help publishers work collaboratively with libraries to fund journals equitably. We present the Open Library of Humanities as an established, sustainable case study for how this can - and does - work for journals.

This conference talk was co-authored with Dr Kira Hopkins from COPIM, Birkbeck, University of London.

Period	25 Feb 2025
Event title	Researcher to Reader Conference
Event type	Conference
Location	London, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International