@article{Popov_Heidrich_Shore_2018, place={Tromsø, Norway}, title={Transition, not revolution}, url={https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/SCS/article/view/4514}, DOI={10.7557/5.4514}, abstractNote={<p>Watch the <a href="https://mediasite.uit.no/Mediasite/Play/f5ffebfca83749e9a54e6b25cbba6cef1d?playFrom=7323000">VIDEO</a>.</p><p>This presentation is aiming to discuss the effects of conversion of a journal to OA and suggests that this is likely to cause a loss of authorship of the journal. Further, we conclude that transitioning to OA via hybrid models is a more sustainable approach than flipping all journals to OA at once.</p><p>As an example we use RSC Advances – a high quality journal in multidisciplinary chemistry published by RSC.</p><p>Since launch in 2012, RSC Advances has achieved rapid growth and worldwide acceptance. In 2016 we converted RSC Advances to OA to:</p><p>• give researchers free access to a broad scope of quality work</p><p>• make the research we publish more visible</p><p>• positively influence the future of OA publishing</p><p>• demonstrate that OA publishing can be both affordable, and sustainable</p><p>An anticipated result of flipping to open access is the loss of authorship and submissions to competing journals. In fact, in 2017 just over 6600 articles were published in RSC Advances – less than a half of the publishing output in 2016.  </p><p>The loss of authorship and a risk of authors choosing to publish in a competing journal is the reason why RSC cannot go full OA (all journals) yet.</p><p>This does not mean that RSC suspended the support of OA. We continue introducing new OA journals like Nanoscale Advances, and new OA transition models like Read & Publish, which allows authors to access all content behind paywall and publish OA at no extra cost.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Septentrio Conference Series}, author={Popov, Mikhail and Heidrich, Claudia and Shore, Andrew}, year={2018}, month={Nov.} }