(13 Nov 2024) A new Taylor & Francis pilot aims to support open access (OA) publishing using a combination of existing funding sources, enabling authors of every article type to choose OA at no cost.
Collective Pathway to Open Publishing (CPOP) has been designed as an OA solution for Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) journals, especially those focused on regions with a high uptake of OA agreements.
CPOP builds on Taylor & Francis’ OA (Read & Publish) agreements, which now help researchers at over 1,000 institutions to publish OA. Some HSS journals with author communities in regions where agreements are common now publish most of their articles OA. However, meeting the criteria for conversion to a full OA journal under an Article Publishing Charge (APC) model remains a challenge due to limited OA funding in HSS fields for articles not covered by an agreement.
CPOP aims to solve this challenge by combining funding from OA agreements with ‘read’ income from subscriptions and other reading access fees. Through CPOP these funding sources can be used collectively to support the journal’s conversion to OA, one volume at a time, without any APCs.
Strong support for Taylor & Francis OA agreements has been established in Nordic countries through partnerships with all the main library consortia. As a result, more than 70% of articles published each year in the two CPOP pilot journals, Nordic Psychology and Nordic Social Work Research, are open access. If CPOP thresholds are hit, the remaining portion of new articles can also be made OA in 2025.
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