What is Subscribe to Open?
Subscribe to Open (S2O) is a model that some publishers are using to move their journals to fully open access for a particular year when they receive enough Library subscriptions.
From a researcher’s perspective, when a journal is part of an S2O agreement, the current year’s publications are available open access, and any author publishing an article in the included journals will have their work published open access with no article processing charges (APCs).
How does Subscribe to Open work?
S2O model is activated when the publisher reaches a set target of library subscriptions for their journal(s) in a particular year.
If the publisher's subscription target is reached, for that calendar year:
- All content in the included journals is available open access
- Researchers who publish in the included journals will have their work published open access immediately without paying an APC
If the publisher’s subscription target is not reached for that calendar year, the publications will remain behind a paywall.
Please see the list of all included journals in Read and Publish and Subscribe to Open Agreements the University participates in. Filter by title, FoR, publisher and more.