“Open for Business – Tracking New OA Models for Journals and Books”

From a Delta Think Blog Post by Heather Staines:

The last few years have seen a flurry of new OA business models across both journals and books, including twists on existing models and combinations of models.

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Whether you’ve been following OA developments since the outset or you are new to the space, there are a lot of things to track. Within publishers, teams touch the OA workflow at different points. Editorial colleagues may be more focused on working with Editorial Boards and authors who have knowledge mainly of how OA affects funder requirements and payment of APCs. Production teams, working closely with vendors, want to ensure that information on funding and license options are visible and accurate. Marketing teams want to promote new strategies and new partners to increase submissions and author uptake. Sales might now be selling new discount or membership models, transformative agreements, and more. From their standpoint, making things as simple as possible for institutional administrators may be a top priority.

Business models discussed in the Delta Think post include:

• Direct to Open
• Flip It Open
• Read, Publish + Join
• Pay to Close

Direct to Full Text Post (about 1330 words)

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