John Mark Ockerbloom on Nostr: cOAllition S will end support for their Transformative Journals program this year, ...
cOAllition S will end support for their Transformative Journals program this year, saying "[We] believe that the strategy of providing financial support for these arrangements beyond this date would significantly increase the risk that these arrangements will become permanent and perpetuate hybrid Open Access, which cOAlition S has always firmly opposed."
Of the 996 journals in their program, 4% flipped to full OA, and 56% missed their targets. Full report:
https://www.coalition-s.org/blog/transformative-journals-analysis-from-the-2023-reports/Published at
2024-07-01 14:21:45Event JSON
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