7 July 2020
EDP Sciences is pleased to announce an exciting development in its commitment to open access. Following the successful transition of Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena (MMNP) to open access under the Subscribe to Open (S2O) pilot earlier this year, a further five maths journals will transition to open access under this model from January 2021. The journals are:
- ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations (COCV)
- ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis (M2AN)
- ESAIM: Probability and Statistics (PS)
- RAIRO – Theoretical Informatics and Applications
- RAIRO – Operations Research
MMNP was the first mathematics journal in the world to adopt the S2O model. The transition of the other maths journals to open access under this model will have a significant impact on international mathematics publishing and places EDP Sciences and its partners among the champions of this model. The mathematics community is particularly supportive of open science and keen to embrace initiatives that further the transition to open access. Transitioning journals on this scale is bound to have a positive evolutionary effect within the community and support has already been expressed by a range of colleagues and stakeholders.
“We believe a diversity of publishing models guarantees the long-term scientific independence of researchers and are encouraged by the support from the community for this model,” observed Agnès Henri, Managing Director. “As a publisher with a long-standing commitment to open access, EDP Sciences is pleased to extend MMNP’s modest, but successful, Subscribe to Open pilot to a further five journals”.
Dr Henri went on to explain “Not only did all MMNP subscribers support the transition, but we also saw a rise in submissions suggesting there is a genuine appetite for this model. While S2O does not guarantee success in every field or for every journal, we encourage the community to support this initiative across our maths portfolio as active participation will help the model to thrive.”
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 year’s content is made available to all in full open access. 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. For its part, EDP Sciences has announced recently a price freeze across all journals for the year 2021.
Authors will be able to publish in these journals in open access, free of charge. Articles will be published under a CC-BY 4.0 license allowing authors to retain the copyright and others to share and adapt the content. A Creative Commons license also enables authors to be fully compliant with the open access requirements of their institution or funding organisation(s).