9 March 2020
Annual Reviews has announced that the 2020 volume of the Annual Review of Cancer Biology has been converted from gated to open access, with all articles published under a CC BY licence. The back volumes, dating from 2017, are also freely available. The Annual Review of Cancer Biology is one of five journals included in a 2020 pilot programme for Subscribe to Open. The status of the four other journals will be announced as they publish.
Subscribe to Open is a solution for sustainable open access publishing that provides an alternative to article processing charges (APCs). It uses existing library relationships and subscription purchases to convert gated journals to open access. Institutions simply continue to subscribe — there are no additional processes — and as long as subscription revenues are maintained, the year’s volume is published open access and the back volumes made freely available.
President and Editor-In-Chief of Annual Reviews, Richard Gallagher said, “Annual Reviews appreciates the support of the Jisc consortium and our loyal subscribers for Subscribe to Open. We also thank the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for funding the development of Subscribe to Open, which we undertook in partnership with Raym Crow, Managing Partner, Chain Bridge Group, whose insights underpin the approach.”
The four other journals in the pilot programme, publishing throughout the year, are the Annual Review of Public Health, Annual Review of Political Science, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, and Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science.