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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">*With apologies for cross-posting*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Please see some news about <i>Astronomy & Astrophysics</i> (A&A) journal we would like to share with you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">The full press<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>release<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is available on the A&A news page -<span class="apple-converted-space">
</span></span><a href="https://bit.ly/3DYja0J" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:#F8F8F8;text-decoration:none">https://bit.ly/3DYja0J</span></a><span style="color:black"> - and an excerpt is included below.</span></p>
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<span style="color:black">For any questions or comments, please contact<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Charlotte Van Rooyen, Director of Marketing and Communications, EDP Sciences:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:charlotte.vanrooyen@edpsciences.org" title="mailto:charlotte.vanrooyen@edpsciences.org">charlotte.vanrooyen@edpsciences.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.1pt;text-indent:-.1pt"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">With the continued support of subscribers, Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A) journal will be published open access in 2022 under a Subscribe-to-Open model.</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;color:black">Paris, 19 October 2021: The A&A Board of Directors has announced that their journal will move to a Subscribe-to-Open (S2O) model. If libraries renew their subscriptions, A&A will be published in full
open access in 2022. Since its launch in 1969, A&A has been publishing pioneering, peer reviewed scientific content. The transition to open access will extend access of its high-quality research</span><w:Sdt SdtTag="goog_rdk_0" id="1668441012"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;color:black">
</span></w:Sdt><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;color:black">to a worldwide audience – furthering the field of astronomy and astrophysics. Library subscriptions</span><w:Sdt SdtTag="goog_rdk_2" id="1380978265"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;color:black">,
together with substantial contributions from the A&A sponsoring countries,</span></w:Sdt><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;color:black"> will cover publication and editorial costs and enable content to become open access.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;color:black">“We have long been interested in transitioning A&A to open access, and have followed recent developments closely”, said Professor André Moitinho de Almeida, Chairperson of the A&A Board of Directors.
“It was important for us to apply a collaborative, transparent and rapid conversion to open access and balance that with a model that works for the astronomy community, and we consider S2O a promising approach.”</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;color:black">“Open access widens the reach of our authors’ work. In the interests of advancing open science and serving our community, we are committed to making open access a reality for our journal, with the
support of our librarian partners across the world.” said Dr. Thierry Forveille, Editor-in-Chief of
<i>A&A</i>. “We urge existing subscribers to renew as soon as they can and encourage other libraries to join the S2O programme and support our open access journey.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;color:black">A&A has been published by EDP Sciences since 2000. “Following the success of the Subscribe-to-Open programme introduced with our mathematics journals in 2020, we are looking forward to supporting our
A&A colleagues in their transition to open access following a similar model. Focusing on transparency will be a priority in order to boost confidence in the S2O model and allow objective decision-making.” said Dr. Agnés Henri, Managing Director of EDP Sciences.
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