Bloomsbury Open Collections: The Impact So Far
Phoebe Murphy-Dunn showcases the sustainability and resilience of collective-action OA models for books
publishing models
More than 40 organisations join Publish, Review, Curate Alliance
Alliance aims to promote a more open and transparent approach to scholarly communication
JMIRx joins PRC Alliance as founding member
Model 'separates the processes of publishing, reviewing and curating research'
Springer Nature reports continued growth in TAs and OA publishing
Publisher signed 19 new transformative agreements and renewed 17 more during the year, bringing total to 101 agreements
The value stack: what will institutions actually be buying in 2030?
Steve Smith asks: after publication, who pays for the context, provenance, and judgment that make research usable?
JMIR Publications and Jisc renew flat-fee open access agreement
Flat-fee model replaces individual APCs with a single institutional payment, simplifying workflows and broadening access
Mathematics journals leave commercial publisher for community model
Publications move to EMS Press as subscription journals and transition under new Launch to Open (L2O) model
IGI Global launches read and publish licensing model
Agreement includes more than 10,000 scholarly e-Books and over 200,000 peer-reviewed chapters
MDPI launches new ‘freemium’ model
Initiative hopes to help smaller journals, particularly those in underserved markets and global south, with growth and impact
Solving the equity gap in open access with Bloomsbury Open Collections
Ros Pyne, Bloomsbury's Director of Open Access and Innovation, shares how the new Open Collections model is providing an alternative route to open access…
JSTOR launches new books distribution model
Publisher Collections designed to "encourage equitable, broad access to scholarship" and meet needs of libraries and presses
Cambridge publishes 2,000th text in Elements series
Unique format in academic publishing hailed as "international treasure"