This eighth episode of SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast is the second in a two-part series on open access (OA) publishing (see Part 1 here). In this section, Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) and Ann Michael (DeltaThink) discuss some of the more complex aspects of the OA landscape, such as funder mandates, Plan S, and transformative agreements.

To wrap up the two-part series on OA, we encourage our listeners to continue reading and learning about OA. Below are some resources that Ann was kind enough to share for interested readers:

• Seeking Sustainability: Publishing Models for an Open Access Age

• PLOS Community Action Publishing model

• Subscribe to Open resources:

  • Subscribe to Open: A practical approach for converting subscription journals to open access

  • https://subscribetoopencommunity.org/

• Sustainable Open Access (recorded webinar with Ann Michael, Raym Crow, and Sara Rouhi from PLOS)

• cOAlition S website and resources

• Plan S impact

• Transformative journals:

  • Plan S

  • DeltaThink data-based analysis on Transformative journals

• ESAC Initiative

• University of California model and toolkit