From hannah.rosen at lyrasis.org Wed Feb 3 11:21:15 2021 From: hannah.rosen at lyrasis.org (Hannah Rosen) Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2021 16:21:15 +0000 Subject: [Lyropen] Subscribe to Open Survey: Feedback Requested In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello All, LYRASIS has been working with Annual Reviews (AR) since the fall of 2017 to provide our members with AR's annual review volumes that synthesize research about current trends evident in over 40 scientific disciplines. When AR announced that they would launch their pilot Subscribe to Open project in 2020, we fully supported the initiative, and we are happy to report that with the help of LYRASIS subscribing members, AR has successfully funded and published the 2020 volumes of the 5 journals included in the pilot as Open Access. We want to thank all of our participating members who have made this initiative possible. The success of the Subscribe to Open model has led to increased participation from other nonprofit and commercial scholarly publishers worldwide. As a result, the Subscribe to Open Community of Practice (https://subscribetoopencommunity.org) has been formed. The purpose of this community is to offer a forum for publishers, libraries, funders, and as well as others to share their experiences and to establish definitions and boundaries for S2O approaches. AR and the S2O Community of Practice would like to learn more about library opinions surrounding the Subscribe to Open model. They have assembled a survey that they are hoping all LYRASIS members (not just participating AR users) could complete. Survey: S2O Survey (snapsurveys.com) The survey should take roughly 8-minutes, and will be open until February 18th, 2021. The results of the survey will be made freely available in the coming months and shared at various industry conferences later this year. 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One of the larger LYRASIS subscriber groups is our LYRASIS Springer Nature Journals Group, which comprises more than 140 libraries of all types and sizes. In March 2020 when the pandemic emerged full force, we began working with our Springer Nature Journals Group to strategize a plan to reduce costs for 2021 and beyond while simultaneously offering options to redirect those cost savings towards OA publishing. During conversations within the group as well as with the LYRASIS membership at large, we perceived an eagerness to support OA beyond the more common Article Processing Charges (APC) and Book Processing Charges (BPC) models that are often linked to authors affiliated with the funding institution. Two creative opportunities emerged. Please note that while the two options described below initially came from a particular LYRASIS subscriber group, these opportunities to support OA are not solely limited to participants in the LYRASIS Springer Nature Journals Group. Any institution that has not yet committed support to either of these programs may contribute. For the first option, LYRASIS has negotiated an opportunity to support the fully OA ebook publishing of content at Springer Nature that aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Goals are an urgent call to action for all countries to ensure peace and prosperity for all people and the planet into the future. We are specifically focusing on titles published in the Springer Nature United Nations Sustainable Development Goal Series. To date 30 libraries have committed a total of $52,450 to publish forthcoming OA ebooks in the SDG Series that align with at least one or more of the following five SDGs: * SDG5: Gender and Equality * SDG9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure (Subseries Advisor is at one of our member institutions, University of Virginia) * SDG12: Responsible Consumption and Production (Subseries Advisor is at one of our member institutions, New Jersey Institute of Technology) * SDG13: Climate Change * SDG16: Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions For the second option, LYRASIS has facilitated an opportunity to support Demography, the widely-used population studies journal from the Population Association of America that left Springer Nature in 2020 and moved to Duke University Press in 2021, using an OA model that does not require APCs. Thus far, 63 libraries have committed a total of $27,023 to support this transition of Demography from a toll-based model to a fully OA one. Recently, LYRASIS and its member institutions were specifically thanked on Twitter by Duke University Press: "We are incredibly grateful for all the libraries who have offered support, in partnership with @LYRASIS, for transitioning Demography, the flagship journal of the @PopAssocAmerica, to #OpenAccess & sustaining this access into the future." (https://twitter.com/KristenTwardow/status/1357049121278984196?s=20) We are very pleased to report the results of these collaborative efforts in support of OA publishing, proving that even in the midst of financial hardship there is a continued will to change the way scholarship is shared. One of our bedrock values at LYRASIS is that we can accomplish more together than alone and can empower one another to facilitate significant and sustainable change. If any of you have funds available and would like to provide support for these programs as we approach the end of the fiscal year, please be in touch with me at jill.grogg at lyrasis.org. 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