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Annual Review of Cancer Biology uses Subscribe to Open to publish 2020 volume open access
Pilot OA program generates widespread support from institutional subscribers
Palo Alto, CALIF. (March 9, 2020) — Nonprofit publisher Annual Reviews is pleased to announce 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 license. 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 program 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), the mechanism used by most open access journals. 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.
The Co-Editors of the Annual Review of Cancer Biology, Tyler Jacks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA and Charles L. Sawyers, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA each responded to the news:
Dr. Jacks said, "I know I speak for the entire editorial committee as well as all of our authors in saying how important the conversion of the 2020 volume to open access is. The reviews published in the Annual Review
of Cancer Biology help to guide the field for investigators throughout the world and across disciplines. Having the journal be openly available to cancer researchers wherever they may be is a truly significant advance.”
Dr. Sawyers said, “I couldn’t be more pleased with this decision to move the 2020 volume to open access. The Annual Review of Cancer Biology describes the most exciting and compelling developments in cancer. With
open access, this work is now freely accessible to an even broader set of stakeholders, including policy makers who can use the insights to help shape future decisions about resource allocation and access to novel technologies and medicines.”
Jisc, a membership organization providing digital solutions for UK education and research, supports Subscribe to Open (S2O) from nonprofit publisher Annual Reviews as a thoughtful and sustainable transformative
model in scholarly communications. “It is aligned with the interests of our members who support the transition from gated to open access.” says Jisc Director of Licensing, Caren Milloy. “It
is encouraging that the 2020 volume of the Annual Review of Cancer Biology is now published open access using S2O and we wish them every success with converting the other four journals in the program”.
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”. He added, “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 program, 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.
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About Annual Reviews: Annual Reviews is
a nonprofit publisher dedicated to synthesizing and integrating knowledge for the progress of science and benefit of society. Visit annualreviews.org and follow “@AnnualReviews.”
About Subscribe to Open: Subscribe to Open is
a new pathway to open access for Annual Reviews. It empowers libraries to use their existing collection budgets to make world-leading review journals open to everyone.
For further information, contact Andrea
Lopez, Director of Sales at Annual Reviews.