Pluto Journals, the social sciences publisher, has successfully reached the goal to flip its complete journal portfolio of 21 journals to Open Access from 2021 onwards.
The project ‘Pluto Open Journals’ was realised in partnership with Knowledge Unlatched (KU), and supported by the conceivers of the ground-breaking Subscribe-to-Open (S2O) model, Libraria, a group of anthropologists and other social scientists committed to Open Access. Pluto Journals has asked those libraries and institutions currently subscribing to any of the journals to renew for 2021 on an S2O basis, thus contributing to making these journals completely free to readers and authors all over the world.
In addition to relying on EBSCO and other subscription agents, Pluto Journals was supported by KU in introducing the S2O model to libraries and by independent publishing consultant, Pippa Smart, to develop its Open Access strategy. By building on the current subscription processes, the S2O model involves librarians in their existing roles as decision-makers and curators as to which journals merit support, in this case on behalf of readers worldwide as the journals move to Open Access.
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