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Dear colleagues,

Please see below a survey announcement I believe may be of interest to readers of this list. The survey is available here and the closing date is 18 February.

EDP Sciences is proud to be a participant in the Subscribe to Open Community of Practice. We encourage publishers, librarians, funders and other interested parties to complete the survey and share it widely to gauge understanding of the Subscribe to Open (S2O) model. Results of the survey will be made freely available and shared throughout 2021.

For any questions, please contact Charlotte Van Rooyen, Director of Marketing and Communications, EDP Sciences, charlotte.vanrooyen@edpsciences.org.

Thank you for your attention and help.

Maria Campbell

Marketing Manager

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Announcing the Subscribe to Open Community of Practice and Survey

Palo Alto, CA (February 1, 2021) - The participants from the Subscribe to Open (S2O) Community of Practice are pleased to announce the launch of this community to offer a forum for publishers, libraries, and funders as well as others with an interest in this model, to share their experiences and to establish definitions and boundaries for S2O approaches. 

Subscribe to Open (S2O) represents an innovative approach to flipping existing subscription journals to open access without the use of APCs. Pioneered by the nonprofit publisher Annual Reviews, the model is now being implemented by a growing number of nonprofit and commercial scholarly publishers worldwide.

To this end, the community of practice has developed a survey to gauge the understanding of this model to ensure a sustainable future.  We ask for your help in completing  the survey and sharing it with any other interested parties.

We encourage anyone interested — including publishers, librarians and funders — to contribute to this community by completing the survey, in order to share experiences, pose questions, and offer their insights about S2O. The results of the survey will be made freely available and shared at various conferences throughout 2021.

For more information, contact Andrea Lopez, Director of Sales, Partnerships & Initiatives (alopez@annualreviews.org)