ALPSP Training: Strategy and Pricing for Open Access Journals

Thursday, 2 October 2025

Are you involved in developing or executing OA publishing strategy? Do you have responsibility for implementing an OA programme? Do you need to inform your strategic planning of OA with a practical perspective?

This course will equip participants with the tools and insights to inform their OA strategic thinking and decision making. It will take people through the complexities and challenges of OA, highlighting the ways in which OA publishing is deeply different to subscription publishing (and some ways that it is the same!).

Aimed at senior managers, the training is an intensive, interactive, half-day course looking at the strategic aspects of overseeing and developing OA journals and acts as a follow-on course to the Growing Successful Open Access Journals training (although it is not essential to take the lower level course first). There will be group discussions, case studies and scenarios to prepare delegates for meeting the challenges of planning and running OA journals. We will explore the issues encountered in setting strategy, budgets and pricing; the policy and competitive landscape; and sales and marketing.