Our mission is to build a sustainable future for academic journals by challenging the profit-making models of global corporate publishing and data systems.
By joining OJC, libraries can invest in the long-term sustainability of non-profit diamond open access publishing.
We have designed a scalable pathway to migrate journals away from commercial publishers and subscription models. And we provide libraries with an exit ramp from commerical Transformative Agreements.
Working together, libraries, academics, scholarly associations, and nonprofit publishers can build a fairer and more affordable journals publishing system.
Titles can “flip” to diamond open access with the OJC, empowering libraries to cancel commercial journal subscriptions or walk away from Transformative Agreements.
OJC places control over journals back in the hands of academic editors. We do not “own” the journals that join our collections and can offer support for editors looking to establish their own legal structures to protect journals from commercial acquisition
If we are serious about tackling our broken system of journals publishing, we need to do more than simply move titles away from commercial publishers. We need to redesign the entire architecture of knowledge dissemination and accreditation.
This involves replacing profit-making indicators of prestige, removing our titles from commercially-owned databases, which track citation indexing and set the parameters for merit and influence, and building better alternatives. We can start building alternatives to prestige that are community-governed rather than commercially driven.
