IWA Publishing, the wholly owned publishing subsidiary of the International Water Association based in London, has successfully transformed its journal portfolio of 10 subscription titles—including the flagship journal Water Science & Technology—to Open Access (OA) from 2021 onwards. In partnership with Knowledge Unlatched (KU), IWA Publishing has asked libraries and institutions currently subscribing to any of the journals to renew for 2021 on a Subscribe-to-Open (S2O) basis, thus contributing to making the journals free to readers and researchers worldwide.
IWA Publishing received support from KU in introducing the S2O model to libraries and from EBSCO Information Services for the transaction of single subscriptions. By building on current subscription processes, the S2O model involves librarians in curating the OA content by deciding which journals merit support.
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