MSP

We are ex­cited to have found an open-ac­cess mod­el that is equit­able and makes sense for math­em­at­ics. Start­ing with 2023, we are ad­opt­ing the Sub­scribe to Open mod­el for these journ­als:

• Geo­metry & To­po­logy,
• Al­geb­ra­ic & Geo­met­ric To­po­logy,
• Al­gebra & Num­ber The­ory,
• Ana­lys­is & PDE, and
• Pa­cific Journ­al of Math­em­at­ics.

Each year, if enough sub­scribers con­tin­ue to sup­port the journ­al, that year’s art­icles will be pub­lished open ac­cess — free to read by every­one and with no au­thor charges.

Sub­scribe to Open (S2O) is a prag­mat­ic and eth­ic­al ap­proach for con­vert­ing sub­scrip­tion journ­als to open ac­cess (OA; free and im­me­di­ate on­line ac­cess to re­search art­icles), one year at a time and without re­ly­ing on either au­thor charges (APCs) or ex­clus­ively on al­tru­ism.

S2O re­lies on the sup­port of the com­munity, and uses the lib­rar­ies’ ex­ist­ing pro­cesses for ac­quir­ing sub­scrip­tions. Lib­rar­ies are in­vited to com­mit to sub­scribe or re­new their sub­scrip­tion be­fore a dead­line early in the cal­en­dar year. For art­icles to be pub­lished in 2023, this dead­line is 15 Feb­ru­ary 2023.

• If sup­port is suf­fi­cient, then that year’s art­icles will be pub­lished open ac­cess un­der a Cre­at­ive Com­mons li­cense.
• If sup­port is in­suf­fi­cient, then the pay­wall is re­tained, as for a tra­di­tion­al sub­scrip­tion. Fur­ther, late sub­scribers who had not com­mit­ted to par­ti­cip­ate will now be charged a high­er price.

The only way for an in­sti­tu­tion to be guar­an­teed un­in­ter­rup­ted ac­cess and the best price is to par­ti­cip­ate (and com­mit be­fore the dead­line). All pay­ing sub­scribers will en­joy per­man­ent ac­cess to that year’s art­icles, one-year ac­cess to the journ­al’s en­tire back­list, and ac­cess to us­age stat­ist­ics. S2O is a sub­scrip­tion mod­el, not a vol­un­tary dona­tion. It funds a pub­lic good (open ac­cess to art­icles) by us­ing each in­sti­tu­tion’s pur­suit of its own in­terests.

The of­fer will be re­peated every year, with the open­ing of each year’s con­tent de­pend­ent on suf­fi­cient par­ti­cip­a­tion for that year.

We will ex­pect al­most full re­new­al of our sub­scrip­tions. If even a few cur­rent sub­scribers do not re­new, it is likely that we will not be able to make that year open ac­cess.

S2O is con­sidered a trans­form­at­ive agree­ment, sat­is­fies most fun­ders’ open-ac­cess re­quire­ments, and has been en­dorsed by a num­ber of open-ac­cess or­gan­iz­a­tions, in­clud­ing cO­Ali­tion S (see be­low).