Subscriptions no longer make sense. APCs are not for everyone. What about a different approach? What about building on the growing cooperation in scholarly publishing?
Help us assess the prospects of forming an open access cooperative among libraries, journals, funding agencies, and publishing services. It would pool expertise and resources. It would flip the subscription economy into an open access publishing cooperative.
Learn more about the Subscription-Equivalent Transition (SET) and weigh in on this concept!
Complete the librarian's version of the SET Co-op Scenario Assessment here (closes August 31, 2016).
Complete the publisher and editor's version here (closes August 31, 2016).