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* This page is part of the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap Harvard Open Access Project] (HOAP).
* This page is part of the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap Harvard Open Access Project] (HOAP).


* The goal of the Societies and Open Access Research (SOAR) project is to maintain a comprehensive catalog of scholarly societies supporting gold OA for their own journals. For this purpose, a society's relationship to its OA journals might be that of owner, publisher, or partner with the publisher.  
* The goal of the Societies and Open Access Research (SOAR) project is to maintain a comprehensive catalog of full (non-hybrid) OA journals published by scholarly societies<!--even if the same societies also publish non-OA journals-->. For this purpose, a society's relationship to its OA journals might be that of owner, publisher, or partner with the publisher.  


* Peter Suber and Caroline Sutton started the project in 2007, before the launch of HOAP. But Peter Suber's participation became part of HOAP in 2011, as did Amanda Page's in 2013. However, HOAP itself is only one contributor, and Caroline Sutton continues as a project principal.
* Peter Suber and Caroline Sutton started the project in 2007, before the launch of HOAP. But Peter Suber's participation became part of HOAP in 2011, as did Amanda Page's in 2013. However, HOAP itself is only one contributor, and Caroline Sutton continues as a project principal.
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* Suggested short URL for this page = [http://bit.ly/hoap-soar bit.ly/hoap-soar]
* Suggested short URL for this page = [http://bit.ly/hoap-soar bit.ly/hoap-soar]


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= Catalog =  
= Catalog =  


* The catalog itself = [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A52hoXkXwvhQGpmVi1z2zcDRTTOZqEPdY_PHV9nY6kc/edit Society publishers with open access journals]
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** By [http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=3180826&authType=name&authToken=0tHa Caroline Sutton], [http://bit.ly/petersuber Peter Suber], and [mailto:page.amanda.lynn@gmail.com Amanda Page].
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** ''Highlight'': As of August 14, 2015, the catalog lists 963 societies publishing 920 full (non-hybrid) OA journals. Of these, 713 are in science, technology, engineering and medicine (STM or STEM), 98 are in the social sciences, 59 are in the humanities, 6 are in the arts, and the rest cover more than one of these categories.
| style="background:yellow; color:black"  | The catalog itself = [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A52hoXkXwvhQGpmVi1z2zcDRTTOZqEPdY_PHV9nY6kc/edit#gid=1 Society publishers with open access journals]
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We are also glad to announce we have found our first full OA journals for the catalog affiliated with academic societies located in Bulgaria (one), Ethiopia (one), and Argentina (one). -->
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** The latest edition of the catalog is the third. We [https://plus.google.com/+PeterSuber/posts/8QQbP8meBZg released it] on September 16, 2013, and update it regularly.
<!-- long url of catalog = https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A52hoXkXwvhQGpmVi1z2zcDRTTOZqEPdY_PHV9nY6kc/edit -->
** The catalog is a Google Spreadsheet under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ CC-BY] license.  
* By [http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=3180826&authType=name&authToken=0tHa Caroline Sutton], [http://bit.ly/petersuber Peter Suber], and [mailto:page.amanda.lynn@gmail.com Amanda Page].
** Originally the spreadsheet was open for public editing. Unfortunately vandalism forced us to close public editing in April 2013, although the spreadsheet remains OA under a CC-BY license for reading and reuse. We'll re-open it for public editing when we think it's safe to do so. In the meantime, we continue to update the spreadsheet ourselves. If you have additions or corrections, please send them to [mailto:page.amanda.lynn@gmail.com Amanda Page].  
* ''Highlight'': As of January 23, 2019, the catalog lists 1,077 societies publishing 1,041 full (non-hybrid) OA journals. <!-- OLD NUMBERS FROM 2015: Of these, 803 are in science, technology, engineering and medicine (STM or STEM), 117 are in the social sciences, 63 are in the humanities, 7 are in the arts, and the rest cover more than one of these categories. -->
** Suggested short URL for the catalog = [http://bit.ly/oaj-society bit.ly/oaj-society]
* The latest edition of the catalog is the third. We [https://plus.google.com/+PeterSuber/posts/8QQbP8meBZg released it] on September 16, 2013, and update it regularly.
* The catalog is a Google Spreadsheet under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ CC-BY] license.  
* Originally the spreadsheet was open for public editing. Unfortunately vandalism forced us to close public editing in April 2013. We experimentally re-opened it in June 2018, but similar problems forced us to close it again in December 2018. As always, the spreadsheet remains OA under a CC-BY license for reading and reuse, and we continue to update it ourselves. If you would like editing privileges, please let us know. If you have additions or corrections, please send them to [mailto:page.amanda.lynn@gmail.com Amanda Page].  
<!-- December 19, 2018: we re-closed the spreadsheet to public edits. At least one anonymous user was making bad edits. Now it's view-only, and invitation-only for editing. From the beginning until April 2013, and from June-December 2018, anyone with the URL could also edit. --> 
* Suggested short URL for the catalog = [http://bit.ly/oaj-society bit.ly/oaj-society]


* Editions of the catalog, and accompanying articles
* Editions of the catalog, and accompanying articles
** Caroline Sutton and Peter Suber released the first edition of the catalog in September 2007. At that time, the catalog was a [http://www.co-action.net/projects/OAsocieties downloadable Excel spreadsheet] under a CC-BY license. It's still available, though superseded.  
** Caroline Sutton and Peter Suber released the first edition of the catalog in September 2007. At that time, the catalog was a downloadable Excel spreadsheet under a CC-BY license. <!-- It's still available, though superseded. -->
*** Caroline and Peter also wrote an article to accompany the catalog, [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:4387568 Society publishers with open access journals], ''SPARC Open Access Newsletter'', November 2, 2007.
*** Caroline and Peter also wrote an article to accompany the catalog, [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:4387568 Society publishers with open access journals], ''SPARC Open Access Newsletter'', November 2, 2007.
** Caroline and Peter released the second edition on December 2, 2011. This edition launched the Google spreadsheet still in use for the [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgBYTDKmesh7dDZ6UnBfcnpOdVpnd3ptSnVpQ0xrenc third and current edition].  
** Caroline and Peter released the second edition on December 2, 2011. This edition launched the Google spreadsheet still in use for the [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgBYTDKmesh7dDZ6UnBfcnpOdVpnd3ptSnVpQ0xrenc third and current edition].  
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** The second edition was open to public edits, and continuously updated. For those reasons, we didn't plan to release a third edition. But we did so in September 2013 in order to add Amanda Page as a co-author and recognize her work enlarging and improving the catalog.
** The second edition was open to public edits, and continuously updated. For those reasons, we didn't plan to release a third edition. But we did so in September 2013 in order to add Amanda Page as a co-author and recognize her work enlarging and improving the catalog.
** The first edition of the catalog listed both full and hybrid OA journals. But the second and third editions list only full (non-hybrid) OA journals.
** The first edition of the catalog listed both full and hybrid OA journals. But the second and third editions list only full (non-hybrid) OA journals.
 
** Amanda Page created a series of [[SOAR maps|maps]], [https://plus.google.com/+PeterSuber/posts/NwZPXLY4CeQ released] on October 21, 2013, to show the locations of the societies publishing OA journals.
= Maps =
<!-- ** The maps are moving to the HOAP wiki. See the growing [[SOAR maps]] page. -->
 
<!-- old, dead URL for OA Journals Published by Societies: Maps and Data Visualizations:
* Amanda Page created a series of maps, [https://plus.google.com/+PeterSuber/posts/NwZPXLY4CeQ released] on October 21, 2013, to show the locations of the societies publishing OA journals.
** The maps are moving to the HOAP wiki. See the growing [[SOAR maps]] page.
<!-- old URL for OA Journals Published by Societies: Maps and Data Visualizations:
https://sites.google.com/site/societyoamap/ -->
https://sites.google.com/site/societyoamap/ -->


= Related resources =  
= Related resources =  
* Anne Britton, [http://blogs.harvard.edu/britton/2019/09/06/open-access-society-publishers-in-wikidata/ Open-Access Society Publishers in Wikidata], September 6, 2019.


* Rod Cookson, [http://blog.alpsp.org/2014/08/learned-societies-more-confident-about.html Learned societies more confident about future – and a ‘new pragmatism’ on Open Access], Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), August 6, 2014.
* Rod Cookson, [http://blog.alpsp.org/2014/08/learned-societies-more-confident-about.html Learned societies more confident about future – and a ‘new pragmatism’ on Open Access], Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), August 6, 2014.
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* Sarah Cooney-McQuat, Stefan Busch, and Deborah Kahn, [http://doi.org/10.1087/20100204 Open access publishing: a viable solution for society publishers], ''Learned Publishing'', April 2010.
* Sarah Cooney-McQuat, Stefan Busch, and Deborah Kahn, [http://doi.org/10.1087/20100204 Open access publishing: a viable solution for society publishers], ''Learned Publishing'', April 2010.


* [http://open-access.org.uk/information-and-guidance/guide-to-goldoa/ Gold Open Access for Learned Societies?] UK Open Access Implementation Group. First released in January 2013; last revised October 2013.
* Martin Paul Eve, [https://www.martineve.com/2018/01/21/how-learned-societies-could-flip-to-oa-using-a-consortial-model/ How Learned Societies Could Flip to Open Access, With No Author-Facing Charges, Using a Consortial Model], January 21, 2018.
 
* Nicky Ferguson, David Jennings, Seb Schmoller and Caroline Sutton, [http://web.archive.org/web/20150529131548/http://open-access.org.uk/information-and-guidance/guide-to-goldoa/ Gold Open Access for Learned Societies?], UK Open Access Implementation Group, last revised October 2013.
 
* Robert Harington, [https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/06/01/diamond-open-access-societies-mission/ Diamond Open Access, Societies and Mission], ''Scholarly Kitchen'', June 1, 2017.
 
* Bianca Kramer, [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Lg3V_okwCTxqZ02CIZLUrKLedkQKret2T5R8R07DYGs/edit#gid=0 Scholarly societies - publishing income and costs], a crowd-sourced OA spreadsheet, launched December 2018. It includes (or will include) information on OA, APCs, licensing, and copyright.
 
* Mikael Laakso, [https://blog.scholasticahq.com/post/societies-transitioning-journals-oa/ Ways societies are transitioning subscription journals to OA], ''Scholastica'', December 21, 2018.
 
* David Lewis, [https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/handle/1805/17836 Scholarly Societies and the Newspaper Problem], November 2018.
 
* Tasha Mellins-Cohen and Gaynor Redvers-Mutton, [https://insights.uksg.org/articles/10.1629/uksg.486/ Transformation: the future of society publishing], January 8, 2020 ([https://perma.cc/9TBA-ATZ3 perma.cc link]).


* [http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/oa.societies Items tagged with "oa.societies"] at the [http://bit.ly/o-a-t-p Open Access Tracking Project]. Continuously updated.
* Kamran Naim, Curtis Brundy, and Rachael G. Samberg, [https://www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/mbc.E20-03-0178 Collaborative transition to open access publishing by scholarly societies], ''Molecular Biology of the Cell'', February 21, 2021 ([https://perma.cc/24GY-72VM perma.cc link]).  
** View the [http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/oa.societies HTML version] of the feed, or subscribe to the [http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/rss/oa.societies RSS], [http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/atom/oa.societies Atom], or [http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/json/oa.societies?callback=callback Json] versions of the feed.


* [http://oaspa.org Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association] (OASPA). See especially the OASPA [http://oaspa.org/information-resources/for-societies/ page on society publishers].
* [http://oaspa.org Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association] (OASPA). See especially the OASPA [http://oaspa.org/information-resources/for-societies/ page on society publishers].
* Our Research, [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1S0mofhOewffYxGsDy_57HQQBQcPoafJbGAqBGzUgckg/edit#gid=1306262014 Spreadsheet of Society Journals], [https://blog.ourresearch.org/society-list/ released] November 5, 2019. Crowd-sourced and based in part on SOAR data, though not limited to OA journals.


* Heather Piwowar, [http://researchremix.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/society-oa-options/ OA Options For A Society Journal], ''Research Remix'', May 11, 2013.
* Heather Piwowar, [http://researchremix.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/society-oa-options/ OA Options For A Society Journal], ''Research Remix'', May 11, 2013.
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* Stuart Sheiber, [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2013/01/29/why-open-access-is-better-for-scholarly-societies/ Why Open Access is better for Societies], ''The Occasional Pamphlet'', January 29, 2013.
* Stuart Sheiber, [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2013/01/29/why-open-access-is-better-for-scholarly-societies/ Why Open Access is better for Societies], ''The Occasional Pamphlet'', January 29, 2013.
* Patricia Soranno, [https://hub.wiley.com/community/exchanges/discover/blog/2017/10/23/why-should-societies-embrace-open-access-an-editor-s-perspective Why Should Societies Embrace Open Access? An Editor’s Perspective], ''Wiley Exchanges'', October 24, 2017.


* Jan Velterop, [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/alpsp/lp/2003/00000016/00000003/art00002 Should scholarly societies embrace open access (or is it the kiss of death)?] ''Learned Publishing'', July 1, 2003.
* Jan Velterop, [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/alpsp/lp/2003/00000016/00000003/art00002 Should scholarly societies embrace open access (or is it the kiss of death)?] ''Learned Publishing'', July 1, 2003.


* Astrid van Wesenbeeck and Frederick Friend, [http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/Files/Filer/downloads/Open%20Access/Tallinn%20workshop%20Sept%202011/KE%20Open%20Access%20Workshop%20Tallinn%20Sept%202011%20Report.pdf Scholarly Society Journals in Transition to Open Access], Knowledge Exchange, September 2011.
* [https://tspoa.org/ Transitioning Society Publications to OA] (TSPOA). Launched February 2019.
 
* Wellcome Trust, [https://wellcome.ac.uk/sites/default/files/learned-societies-consultancy-request-for-proposals.pdf Helping learned societies explore Plan S-compliant business models], November 2018. A call for tenders from the Wellcome Trust, UKRI, and ALPSP to undertake a study on how society publishers could comply with Plan S.
 
* Astrid van Wesenbeeck and Frederick Friend, [http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/Files/Filer/downloads/Open%20Access/Tallinn%20workshop%20Sept%202011/KE%20Open%20Access%20Workshop%20Tallinn%20Sept%202011%20Report.pdf Scholarly Society Journals in Transition to Open Access], ''Knowledge Exchange'', September 2011.
 
* John Willinsky, [https://demo.publicknowledgeproject.org/ojs3/demo/index.php/health-sciences/article/view/693 Scholarly Associations and the Economic Viability of Open Access Publishing], ''Journal of Health Sciences Policy'', April 8, 2015.
 
* Alicia Wise and Lorraine Estelle, [https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2019/06/24/learned-societies-the-key-to-realising-an-open-access-future Learned Societies, the key to realising an open access future?] ''LSE Impact Blog'', June 24, 2019.
 
* Alicia Wise and Lorraine Estelle, [https://wellcome.figshare.com/articles/Society_Publishers_Accelerating_Open_Access_and_Plan_S_-_Final_Project_Report/9805007 Society Publishers Accelerating Open Access and Plan S - Final Project Report], Information Power, September 12, 2019. Also see the [http://www.informationpower.co.uk/news/press-release-spaops-report-toolkit/ press release].
 
 
For real-time news and comment on the topic of society publishers and OA, follow the [http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/oa.societies oa.societies] tag at the [[Open Access Tracking Project]]. (This tag library is crowd-sourced, and you can make it more complete by [[Get_started_as_a_tagger | taking part]] in the OATP.) Here some related tag libraries for boolean searches on OATP tags:
* [http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/item_search?q=%23oa.societies+AND+%23oa.journals oa.societies AND oa.journals]
* [http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/item_search?q=%23oa.societies+AND+%23oa.conversions oa.societies AND oa.conversions]
* [http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/item_search?q=%23oa.societies+AND+%23oa.business_models oa.societies AND oa.business_models]

Latest revision as of 09:54, 21 February 2021

  • The goal of the Societies and Open Access Research (SOAR) project is to maintain a comprehensive catalog of full (non-hybrid) OA journals published by scholarly societies. For this purpose, a society's relationship to its OA journals might be that of owner, publisher, or partner with the publisher.
  • Peter Suber and Caroline Sutton started the project in 2007, before the launch of HOAP. But Peter Suber's participation became part of HOAP in 2011, as did Amanda Page's in 2013. However, HOAP itself is only one contributor, and Caroline Sutton continues as a project principal.


Catalog

 

The catalog itself = Society publishers with open access journals

 

  • By Caroline Sutton, Peter Suber, and Amanda Page.
  • Highlight: As of January 23, 2019, the catalog lists 1,077 societies publishing 1,041 full (non-hybrid) OA journals.
  • The latest edition of the catalog is the third. We released it on September 16, 2013, and update it regularly.
  • The catalog is a Google Spreadsheet under a CC-BY license.
  • Originally the spreadsheet was open for public editing. Unfortunately vandalism forced us to close public editing in April 2013. We experimentally re-opened it in June 2018, but similar problems forced us to close it again in December 2018. As always, the spreadsheet remains OA under a CC-BY license for reading and reuse, and we continue to update it ourselves. If you would like editing privileges, please let us know. If you have additions or corrections, please send them to Amanda Page.
  • Suggested short URL for the catalog = bit.ly/oaj-society
  • Editions of the catalog, and accompanying articles
    • Caroline Sutton and Peter Suber released the first edition of the catalog in September 2007. At that time, the catalog was a downloadable Excel spreadsheet under a CC-BY license.
    • Caroline and Peter released the second edition on December 2, 2011. This edition launched the Google spreadsheet still in use for the third and current edition.
    • The second edition was open to public edits, and continuously updated. For those reasons, we didn't plan to release a third edition. But we did so in September 2013 in order to add Amanda Page as a co-author and recognize her work enlarging and improving the catalog.
    • The first edition of the catalog listed both full and hybrid OA journals. But the second and third editions list only full (non-hybrid) OA journals.
    • Amanda Page created a series of maps, released on October 21, 2013, to show the locations of the societies publishing OA journals.

Related resources


For real-time news and comment on the topic of society publishers and OA, follow the oa.societies tag at the Open Access Tracking Project. (This tag library is crowd-sourced, and you can make it more complete by taking part in the OATP.) Here some related tag libraries for boolean searches on OATP tags:

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