NEWS

Taylor & Francis journals convert to open access
through Subscribe to Open pilot

Articles in 2025 volume of three journals will be published OA at no cost to authors

Every article published in the 2025 volume of three Taylor & Francis journals will be made open access (OA), following a successful launch of the publisher’s Subscribe to Open (S2O) pilot. Taylor & Francis has confirmed that enough institutions have renewed or confirmed the renewal of their subscriptions for each journal to reach the required S2O threshold.

Taylor & Francis announced its S2O pilot in October 2024, inviting the journals’ subscribers to support their conversion to OA, one volume at a time. Under S2O’s collective funding model, OA publishing is made possible by subscribers, which means there are no article publishing charges for authors.

With the pilot journals reaching the required level of support, all articles in the 2025 volume of Technical Services Quarterly, Legal Reference Services Quarterly and Journal of LGBTQ Issues in Counseling will be published open access. This includes the full range of article types, such as the specialist and professional content that is typically not covered by other OA models. The journals will continue publishing articles OA until Taylor & Francis assesses whether thresholds have been reached for a second year.

Emily Farrell, Global Commercial Director for Open Research at Taylor & Francis, said: “We are grateful to all the institutions that have demonstrated their support for these important journals and this collective funding approach. In doing so, they will ensure the latest research can be accessed by anyone, anywhere. S2O is one of several innovative models we’re trialing to accelerate OA, particularly in the Humanities and Social Sciences where there is otherwise limited funding for open access publishing.”

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