It’s International Open Access Week, when the publishing community calls attention to the value that open-access publishing brings to researchers around the world. This year’s theme is “Community over Commercialization” and we are proud to participate in two Open Access initiatives that put community at the center of our efforts: the Project MUSE Subscribe to Open Program (S2O) and the Lyrasis Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP). Both initiatives allow Penn Press to join other publishers in our commitment to providing sustainable and equitable access to a broad readership.
OACIP is a library-based crowdsourcing model to fund Diamond open-access journals. Such journals are published with no charges to readers or authors. Two Penn Press journals are raising funds through OACIP and would welcome your institution’s support:
Project MUSE’s S2O Program marks a giant stride towards reshaping the landscape of equitable participation and access to a wide range of current interdisciplinary content by providing a low-risk path to increased access that benefits both libraries and publishers. Subscribe to Open also takes on a community-based approach: if subscriptions to the MUSE collection surpass the minimum sustainability threshold, the current year’s content of the participating titles will be opened to all readers. If the threshold is not reached, that year’s content will remain gated.
Five Penn Press journals are participating in MUSE’s S2O offer for 2025:
- Change Over Time
- Early American Studies
- Eudora Welty Review
- French Forum
- Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development
Learn more about the Project MUSE Subscribe to Open Program and the Open Access Community Investment Program. If you are located at an academic institution, please consider asking your librarian to support these efforts.
