Academic publisher Cambridge University Press has announced that it is moving four more of its journals from a traditional subscription model to Gold Open Access in a further demonstration of its commitment to the development of a sustainable, more open future for academic publishing.
The announcement coincides with the start of Open Access Week (October 22-28), which aims to promote the benefits of Open Access and help to make it a new norm in scholarship and research.
The journals that will be moved to Gold Open Access from January 1, 2019 are: Epidemiology & Infection; Genetics Research; Primary Health Care Research and Development; and Netherlands Journal of Geosciences.
To mark Open Access Week, this year's most downloaded articles from each of the journals will be made freely available until the end of October.
Plans are already in place to flip a larger number of journals to Open Access in 2020.
Flipping these titles to Open Access will increase both the visibility and the impact of the high-quality research they contain. This in turn, will strengthen their position as highly influential publications in their respective fields. These are fields that are embracing OA and flipping will help the journals to better serve their communities.
Open Access is an essential pillar of the Press's Open Research strategy. It aims to make Open Research work for the academic communities it serves, also lies behind its new content sharing service, Cambridge Core Share. This allows journal content to be shared quickly, easily and responsibly, with authors and readers able to generate a link to an article that can then be shared anywhere online, allowing anyone to read the final, published version for free.
There are now more than 270 journals benefiting from Cambridge Core Share, which went live in September following a ten-month pilot. Since then, more than 2700 share links have been generated - a rise of 286 percent on the previous monthly average.
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