5 March 2020
EDP Sciences has announced the implementation of Subscribe to Open (S2O) as a pilot open access (OA) programme in 2020 for Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena (MMNP). MMNP is an international journal publishing multi-disciplinary content on mathematical modelling.
Under the S2O model, existing subscriber institutions are asked to subscribe as usual, and as long as EDP Sciences receives the expected subscription income, then the current volume is made available to all in full open access. The archive also becomes free to read. In this way, institutions support journals for the common good of the academic community and demonstrate their commitment to the long-term sustainability of open access. MMNP has received the required level of support and is now fully open access under the terms of this transformative model.
Authors may now publish in MMNP in open access, free of charge. Articles will publish under a CC BY 4.0 licence, allowing authors to retain the copyright and others to share and adapt the content. A Creative Commons licence also enables authors to be fully compliant with the open access requirements of their institution or funding organisation(s).
Subscribe to Open was initiated by Annual Reviews and was recently taken up by Berghahn Books. New subscribers may join the MMNP programme at any time. Additional participation will help the S2O model to thrive and will reduce the subscription price for existing and new subscribers.