She has been an integral part of the Foundation’s growth since joining as a Program Officer in 2008. In addition, Ylann is Elsevier’s Vice President of Corporate Responsibility, building on two decades of corporate relations and responsibility roles which focus on gender, ‘sound science’, and sustainability collaborations.

Since 2015, she has served as the Co-Chair of Elsevier’s Gender Equity Taskforce which shapes Elsevier’s contributions to inclusive research from gender balance in editorial boards to sex and gender analysis in Research. From June 2020- June 2022, Ylann was also served as the Chair of Research4Life’s Executive Council, a UN-publisher partnership to bridge access gaps for researchers and doctors in developing countries.

Prior to joining Elsevier in 2005, Ylann held various roles in publishing and the non-profit sector, representing the European Platform for Dutch Education at the European Commission.

She started her career as a writer and researcher for Time Life Books and holds an MA in Film & Television Studies from the University of Amsterdam and a BA, magna cum laude in English from Amherst College in Massachusetts.

Ylann is both American and Dutch and based in Amsterdam.

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“While the move to OA is global, we can’t assume that every country, every geographical region is moving at the same pace or that they are adapting similar policies,” said STM CEO Caroline Sutton. “As scholarly publishing too is global, the insights gathered and shared in this report will aid publishers in making informed decisions as they serve authors across the globe, and specifically in China.”

While the report is in-depth and covers a lot of ground geographically in its review of various country-based OA models, following are a few top-line takeaways:

• China too is transitioning to OA and its publishing organizations are experiencing similar changes and challenges as publishers internationally. 
• Like other countries, China is seeing the same acceleration trend toward OA. 
• Data on recently published articles show Gold OA emerging as the more popular OA model in China. 
• More than 60 percent of authors internationally hold little understanding of the various OA models. 
• With the global, rapid transition to OA, which implies accelerated publishing timeframes and growing expectations around immediacy of access, the need to find new ways to ensure integrity is strong.

“Data in this Report show that open access publishing in China has developed rapidly and China has become an important part of the global open access publishing ecosystem. However, China still has great potential in open access publishing, especially for its considerable number of scientific journals in Chinese language,” said CAST. “ Therefore, CAST will actively develop domestic open access policies, standards, and infrastructure, and make effort on the establishment of an open access publishing system suitable for China.”

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Thank you again for joining us at the Frankfurt Conference! With the event behind us, we would very much value your input on the event so that we can continue to improve, continue to provide learning opportunities that excite our members. With your feedback, we can ensure next year’s Conference is a “don’t miss” event. 

Thank you in advance for your time in taking our brief survey!

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This dashboard illustrates that it is the gold model that is driving progress in the journey toward full Open Access.  STM has compiled this data to provide an accurate resource for all those seeking to learn more about open access and the publishing industry.

The percentage of journal articles, reviews and conference papers available via subscription  has fallen by 23% in ten years while the percentage of articles available via the gold model has increased by 24%.  The year-on-year growth average for all publications from 2011 to 2021 is 4% while the rate of growth for publications available via subscription is just 1%. Publications available via the green (subscription-supported) model grew by an average of 3% and bronze* by 4%, just about keeping pace with the overall rate of growth in publications. In contrast, gold maintained an average year-on-year growth rate of 22%.

Gold is the dominant model of open access publishing, granting immediate public access to millions of articles, constituting 31% of all scholarly articles, reviews and conference papers globally in 2021. It has been widely embraced by scholarly publishers because it represents a sustainable means to deliver publishing services and thus maintain the integrity and quality of research articles.  This chart illustrates that the opportunity to publish via the gold model globally has increased by 26%, in terms of share of output, since 2011, while the ‘subscription only’ model has receded by 50%.

Publishing model uptake for Scientific, Technical and Medical (STM) disciplines shows little variation from the global picture due to being a substantially larger disciplinary sector than Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH).  STM disciplines represent 91% and SSH just 9% of global journal articles, reviews and conference papers of 2021 within this dataset.  While having a higher percentage of articles available via subscription compared to STM, perhaps due to differences in the availability of funding and the requirements attached, SSH shows the same decline in subscription articles, having fallen by 23% over the decade for both disciplines.

Authors based in China and the USA currently produce the most journal articles globally.  In 2021, articles, reviews and conference papers authored in China accounted for 20% of global output and the USA, 12%.  The gold model shows growth across all top article-producing countries, in terms of where corresponding authors are based, globally and is now the most frequently applied model for ten of them (including subscription).

In combination, the open access output of the top 25 global funders has shown a clear and increasing preference for the gold model since 2016.  Some public funding bodies have policies that prescribe that an article must be open access and may even specify the publishing route to be taken.   For many of the funders shown, most publications are now open access and the opportunity to make a publication open access via the gold route has become increasingly available.

Read and Publish and Publish and Read agreements between institutions’ libraries and publishers are transforming the licensing of subscription journals to open access, and hence are termed Transformative Agreements.  These agreements provide support for journals to transition from subscription or hybrid to fully open access once most of their articles become funded to become open.  The rapid growth of such agreements across the globe has supported growth in the number of publications made open access.  This chart illustrates the rapid growth in these agreements under which the number of publications jumped by 966% between 2018 and 2020.

The models available for books and monographs are different to those represented for journal articles, reviews and conference papers in the charts above because the hybrid model makes it possible for one chapter in a book to be open access while another, in the same book, is not.   For this reason, we provide statistics for whole books, inclusive of monographs, and book chapters separately.

Open access has had less of an impact on the scholarly books market in comparison to the journals market but there is a clear drop in the percentage of non-open access whole books from 90% of total output in 2011 to 82% in 2021. It is important to consider that, because they are much longer than an article, scholarly books undergo a far more intensive publication process.   Open Access books and monographs are also served by fewer funder policies and funds in comparison to journals.

Model categorisations

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STM Changes in Staff | August 2022

Farewell to Andrea Powell

This summer, STM said goodbye to our Director of Outreach and Publisher Coordinator for the Research4Life initiative, Andrea Powell.

Powell had held these roles since November 2018, focusing on the Research4Life initiative, and working on topics that relate to global research equity. During this time, Andrea played a critical role in steering dialogue about establishing an inclusive, diverse, and equitable scholarly communications environment.

“Andrea has been an essential fixture for STM since 2018. During her tenure with STM, Andrea has expanded publisher participation in Research4Life and challenged us to consider the wider global landscape in the projects and services STM has developed,” said STM CEO, Caroline Sutton. “It was an honest pleasure working with Andrea—her work truly made a lasting impact, and one that has changed the trajectory of STM for the better in so many ways. I always appreciated how Andrea was readily available to lend an ear and help solve any problem. We will miss her very much, and wish her the best in her next endeavor.”

In the next chapter of her career, Powell plans to focus on her role in local government as a Green Party District Councillor and Cabinet member in South Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.

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Welcome to Sarah Phibbs and Jackie Benoist

We are elated to announce that this month two new staff members will join STM — helping us further our mission to advance trusted research in strategic, meaningful ways. Both bring rich industry expertise, a desire to advance research, and a penchant for collaboration.

Sarah Phibbs has joined STM as our new Director of Research4Life Publisher Partnerships — assuming the role recently vacated by Andrea Powell. Before joining STM, Sarah was Vice President of Wiley’s STM Society Publishing, and is currently running her own consulting business. Sarah comes to the role already having close experience with Research4Life’s new strategy.

“I’ve loved facilitating such a committed group to design R4L’s Strategic Plan and Theory of Change. Joining STM gives me the opportunity to build on Andrea’s fantastic work and begin transforming R4L’s role from one way donation to enabling reciprocal, diverse and rich scholarly exchange.”

“Collaboration across user and publishing communities offers potential for a strong publisher legacy for R4L in the UN SDGs, contributing to genuinely equitable open scholarship,” said Phibbs.

Sarah Phibbs | LinkedIn

Jackie Benoist will assume the position of Executive Assistant and Project Coordinator. Jackie will support STM’s CEO, Caroline Sutton — and will work to coordinate other key initiatives as well. Before joining STM Jackie worked for almost two decades at Taylor & Francis, an Informa UK business as part of the Executive team supporting the current and previous CEO.

“We know Jackie and Sarah are going to be valuable assets and can’t wait to see what they bring to life here at STM,” said Sutton.

Please join us in extending a heartfelt welcome to Sarah and Jackie as they begin their journey with STM. Welcome aboard!

Jackie Benoist | LinkedIn

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STM stands with publishing colleagues, scientists, scholars and all people in peril in the democratic nation of Ukraine following the invasion by Russia. As organisations dedicated to the advancement of science and scholarship – humanity itself – through peaceful international collaboration, our members are appalled by the violence.

Ukrainian colleagues are in our thoughts, particularly STM member Virtus Interpress, and fellow member of the International Publishers Association (IPA), the Ukrainian Publishers and Booksellers Association. Together with the IPA and other international bodies we are following developments and discussing how we can best support publishing colleagues, scientists and scholars at this time and beyond.

Our publishing community, together with the scientists and research organisations we support, is a global community; possibly one of the best and most shining examples of what happens when all people, regardless of place or politics, have the opportunity to freely pursue knowledge together. STM members are committed to preserving this ideal.

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