Exploring Paths to OA Sustainability: Society Publishers Weigh In

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MODERATOR: Heather Staines Director of Community Engagement and Senior Consultant Delta Think Trumbull, Connecticut SPEAKERS: Christopher Straub Chief Operating Officer GeoScienceWorld Washington, DC Jennifer Regala Director of Publications/Executive Editor American Urological Association Washington, DC Jeff Lewandowski Director of Publishing & Acting Publisher American Physical Society (APS Physics) Ellicott City, Maryland REPORTER: Shari Leventhal Executive Editor American Society of Nephrology Washington, DC After a brief introduction from Heather Staines, Christopher Straub made some general statements about Open Access (OA) and then discussed his own experience launching an OA journal. Straub explained that the OA movement aims to make scholarly publishing more sustainable and pushes us to think about options to move the field forward and help people arrive where they want to be in the future. Straub discussed the acquisition and success of GeoScienceWorld’s Lithosphere, a collaboration of the most highly respected society publishers in the geosciences, “providing open access to all scientifically rigorous and valid research related to earth, planetary, and environmental sciences” (Figure 1). The Lithosphere author publishing charge (APC) is $2,100 for all research and review articles, and members of the society collaborators receive a 10% discount. Straub attributed some of Lithosphere’s success to the partnership with Hindawi. Lithosphere is Gold OA and a collaboration between the following societies as of January 2020: American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), The Geological Society of America (GSA), Geological Society of London (GSL), Mineralogical Society of America (MSA), SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology, Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), and Society […]