Since our foundation Libraria has liaised with, advocated for, as well as designed and developed ad-hoc financial and business models to help flip the journals portfolios of various scholarly societies, including the American Anthropological Association, the European Association of Social Anthropologists, the European Association of Archaeologists and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), amongst others.

Some of our published work on this front includes:

  1. Why an Open Access Publishing Cooperative can Work https://doi.org/10.14318/hau5.2.002

  2. Understanding and Mitigating the Risks of Open Access for Scholarly Societies, Scholarly Communications Institute, https://trianglesci.org/2018/07/26/understanding-and-mitigating-the-risks-of-open-access-for-scholarly-societies/

  3. Public Statement and Open Letter on the AAA’s “Repository for the Common Good”, https://bruit.it/letters/letter-text/

  4. MIT International and Interdisciplinary Workshop on OA: a Universal Model for Anthropology and Beyond
    https://shass.mit.edu/news/news-2019-mit-anthropologists-plan-model-open-access

https://shass.mit.edu/news/news-2019-perspectives-anthropology-open-access-event-mit