Nonprofit publisher Annual Reviews has announced that the 2020 volume of the Annual Review of Public Health has been converted from gated to open access, with all articles published under a CC BY license. The back volumes, dating from 1980, are also freely available. The Annual Review of Public Health is the second of five journals included in a 2020 pilot program for Subscribe to Open. The Annual Review of Cancer Biology was published open access using Subscribe to Open on March 9, 2020. The status of the three other journals will be announced as they publish.
To support faculty and students with the rapid transition to online learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Annual Reviews removed access control to all 51 of its journals in the life, biomedical, physical, and social sciences on March 13, 2020. This arrangement will remain in place for as long as circumstances dictate. The journals published under the Subscribe to Open program will remain fully accessible beyond this emergency response.
Subscribe to Open is a solution for sustainable open access publishing that provides an alternative to article processing charges (APCs), the mechanism used by most open access journals. It uses existing library relationships and subscription purchases to convert gated journals to open access. Institutions simply continue to subscribe - there are no additional processes - and as long as subscription revenues are maintained, the year's volume is published open access and the back volumes are made freely available.
The three other journals in the pilot program, publishing throughout the year, are the Annual Review of Political Science, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, and the Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science. The 2020 volume of the Annual Review of Cancer Biology was converted to open access using Subscribe to Open in March 2020.
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