More and more scientific journals are opting for open access. This means a new business model is needed. A new video series shows how and why journals can and should convert their business model: "From now on open access - How journals can transform their business model" by the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB). The videos were developed within the framework of the open-access.network project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). You can find the series the TIB AV portal at the following web address: https://av.tib.eu/watchlist/14703. You can download the videos downloaded free of charge and reuse them under the Creative Commons CC-BY license and incorporate them into your own web pages.
Best practice for journal flipping
After an introduction to journal flipping and the start of new open access journals, best practices are presented with alternating interview partners who explain their motivation and challenges in the transformation. For example, Prof. Dr. Johan Rooryck, editor-in-chief of Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, talks about his experiences with the transformation of his journal to open access and provides helpful tips on what is essential to prepare for when flipping your journal. Prof. Dr. Ludo Waltman, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Quantitative Science Studies (QSS), shares in his interview how QSS became an open access journal, explaining the challenges they encountered, the process in general, and the reasons why they started the transition. Finally, in the third interview of the series, Stefanie Paß and Dr. Florian Witzmann, Museum of Natural History, show how and why the journal Fossil Record switched its business model to open access. "Our only way to move Fossil Record forward was to convert it to open access," Dr. Witzmann says in the video: "so that the articles would be more widely distributed and more frequently cited, which would then in turn increase the impact factor, and increase the reputation of the journal."
In addition to publishing the videos on journal flipping, the open-access.network project provides a forum for anyone interested to share their own experiences on transforming open access journals, among other things.