MSP

We fa­vor an open ac­cess mod­el whose only bar­ri­er to pub­lic­a­tion is the mer­it of an au­thor’s work. Any mod­el re­ly­ing on dir­ect or in­dir­ect au­thor charges (APCs) would cre­ate fin­an­cial obstacles that are not ac­cept­able to the math­em­at­ic­al com­munity. As pub­lish­ers of math­em­at­ics, we have chosen the Sub­scribe to Open mod­el, a prag­mat­ic, in­nov­at­ive and trans­form­at­ive ap­proach for con­vert­ing sub­scrip­tion journ­als to open ac­cess without re­ly­ing on APCs.

S2O con­verts sub­scrip­tion journ­als to open ac­cess (free, im­me­di­ate on­line ac­cess, along with a li­cense to re­use the con­tent) one year at a time.

• Sub­scribers have guar­an­teed ac­cess to con­tent wheth­er or not the sub­scrip­tion threshold is met.
• Lib­rar­ies re­tain con­trol of budgets and col­lec­tion.
• Ad­min­is­trat­ively, sub­scrip­tions op­er­ate as be­fore, but now sup­port OA.
• Pub­lish­ers are com­mit­ted to trans­par­ency in costs and pri­cing.
• Pub­lish­ers may of­fer re­served be­ne­fits to sub­scribers, such as
  • re­served ac­cess to on­line-first or ac­cep­ted manuscripts;
  • re­served ac­cess to the full archive;
  • re­duced sub­scrip­tion price be­fore sub­scrip­tion dead­line.
• Sub­scribers sup­port journ­als for the com­mon good of the aca­dem­ic com­munity and demon­strate their com­mit­ment to open ac­cess.

• Au­thors pub­lish without APCs (be­cause pub­lish­ing costs are covered by sub­scrip­tion fees), so they can pub­lish where they choose, rather than where their in­sti­tu­tion has a deal.
• Art­icles are pub­lished un­der a Cre­at­ive Com­mons li­cense (and au­thors are al­lowed to re­tain the copy­right).
• The li­cense en­ables au­thors to be fully com­pli­ant with the open ac­cess re­quire­ments of their in­sti­tu­tion or fund­ing or­gan­iz­a­tion(s). If a journ­al’s con­tent can­not be open in a giv­en year due to in­suf­fi­cient sub­scrip­tions, au­thors can com­ply with their fun­ders’ re­quire­ments via the Green Open Ac­cess route.
• Au­thors will be sup­port­ing an equit­able sys­tem for all re­search­ers, based on rel­ev­ance and qual­ity, not cost.

• S2O sup­ports open ac­cess and open sci­ence and helps to guar­an­tee the long-term sci­entif­ic in­de­pend­ence of re­search­ers through a di­versity of pub­lish­ing mod­els.
• S2O sup­ports the val­ues of the math­em­at­ics com­munity.
• S2O helps to meet the grow­ing de­mand for open ac­cess pub­lic­a­tions, and is en­dorsed by ALPSP, cO­Ali­tion S, CRL, ES­AC, JISC, LYRASIS, OA2020.

• S2O Com­munity of Prac­tice
  ht­tps://sub­scribetoo­pen­com­munity.org
• R. Crow, R. Galla­gh­er & K. Naim: “Sub­scribe to Open: A prac­tic­al ap­proach for con­vert­ing sub­scrip­tion journ­als to open ac­cess”, Learned Pub­lish­ing 33 (2019)
  ht­tps://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1262
• C. Brundy & G. Steel: “Sub­scribe to pro­gress: Ad­van­cing equity through open­ness”, Com­mon­place 1 (2021)
  ht­tps://doi.org/10.21428/6ff­d8432.20811f1e
• SPARC: “Equity is at heart of Sub­scribe to Open mod­el” (2021)
  ht­tps://spar­copen.org/news/2021/equity-is-at-heart-of-sub­scribe-to-open-mod­el/
• En­dorse­ment of S2O by ALPSP, cO­Ali­tion S, CRL, ES­AC, JISC, LYRASIS, OA2020
  ht­tps://www.co­ali­tion-s.org/en­abling-smal­ler-in­de­pend­ent-pub­lish­ers-to-par­ti­cip­ate-in-open-ac­cess-trans­form­at­ive-ar­range­ments-a-com­mit­ment-from-key-stake­hold­ers/
• SPA-OPS In­de­pend­ent Re­port in­to Open Ac­cess Busi­ness Mod­els (2019)
  ht­tps://www.alpsp.org/Re­ports-Pub­lic­a­tions/20190912-spa-ops-re­port-and-toolkit
• Open Ac­cess Wiki­pe­dia page
  ht­tps://en.wiki­pe­dia.org/wiki/Open_ac­cess