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* 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. 

* 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.

* Suggested short URL for this page = [http://bit.ly/hoap-soar bit.ly/hoap-soar]


= Catalog = 

* The catalog itself = [http://bit.ly/oaj-society 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].
** ''Highlight'': As of October 19, 2015, the catalog lists 1,033 societies publishing 1,000 full (non-hybrid) OA journals. 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. 
** 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, 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]. 
** Suggested short URL for the catalog = [http://bit.ly/oaj-society 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. <!-- 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 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]. 
*** Peter wrote an article to accompany the second edition, [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:8592165 Open access journals from society publishers], ''SPARC Open Access Newsletter'', December 2, 2011.
** 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.

= Maps = 

* 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.
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= Related resources = 

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

* [http://oaspa.org Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association] (OASPA). See especially the OASPA [http://oaspa.org/information-resources/for-societies/ page on society publishers].

* Heather Piwowar, [http://researchremix.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/society-oa-options/ OA Options For A Society Journal], ''Research Remix'', May 11, 2013.

* Seb Schmoller, [http://repository.alt.ac.uk/887/ Journal tendering for societies: a brief guide], Association for Learning Technology, February 15, 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.

* 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.


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