{"id":2886,"date":"2023-08-13T14:23:39","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T14:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/?page_id=2886"},"modified":"2025-08-04T10:37:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T10:37:03","slug":"s2o","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/s2o\/","title":{"rendered":"The ‘Environment and Society’ Package"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Opening scholarship across four journals: Global Environment<\/em>, Nomadic Peoples<\/em>, Plant Perspectives<\/em>, Worldwide Waste<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Four high quality journals<\/strong> on environment and society.
\u2022 Opening access<\/strong> to new scholarship through S2O and similar models.
\u2022 Additional benefits<\/strong> (reduced price, OA Publish Guarantee, backset access etc.).
\u2022 All journals can be supported via individual subscriptions<\/a>, or as a bundle.
\u2022 Published by a small, fully independent family-run press<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Introduction<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The White Horse Press is a small independent publisher<\/strong> specialising in environment and society.  We are pleased to offer a package of four scholarly journals<\/strong> on environment and society. The package includes two established journals<\/strong> of strong reputation alongside two newer titles that support emerging<\/strong> interdisciplinary communities<\/strong>. Exploring interests across history, the social sciences and the humanities<\/strong>, all the journals in the package share a preoccupation with how society and the environment interact and feed back on one another. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The White Horse Press is committed to reducing and removing barriers<\/strong> to access for the material we publish. After all, the best, latest thought<\/strong> on environment and society is relevant to, literally, everyone. We are therefore offering two of these journals on a Subscribe to Open<\/strong> basis and two on a mixed subscription model based on Projekt KOALA<\/strong> grants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Open<\/strong> Access Models<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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Nomadic People<\/em> and Plant Perspectives<\/em> are offered under a ‘true’ S2O model. If we achieve a set revenue target for the year for a journal, its volume for that year will become fully and permanently Open Access<\/strong> under a CC BY license. Should we fail to reach the revenue threshold, that year’s volume will remain gated (available to all those who subscribed, but not others) and we\u2019ll try again the following year. Revenue thresholds will be set for each journal individually. Individual subscriptions and bundled subscriptions will all count towards the threshold. Author fees will only ever apply in cases where the journal remains gated, but the author nevertheless wishes to make their own article OA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The S2O model is rapidly gaining traction<\/strong> across the industry and has the merit of being administratively simple<\/strong> for all concerned, since there is no need to alter the subscription process. Moreover, it does not require any special deal or agreement between subscribing institutions and a tiny press like us \u2013 libraries have enough on their plate keeping track of OA deals with bigger presses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please see our Ethics Statement<\/strong><\/a> for more detail on how we implement Subscribe-to-Open in an equitable way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mixed Model with<\/em><\/strong> Projekt KOALA<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Global Environment<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Worldwide Waste<\/em>\u00a0are offered on a mixed model that includes grant support from Projekt KOALA<\/a><\/strong>, which covers part but not all of the production costs. We are already committed to publishing these two titles open access (CC BY) and APC-free in 2026 and 2027, as a condition of securing the KOALA support \u2013\u00a0but since the KOALA support is not enough to cover costs, we are still seeking subscriber support in order to break even.<\/p>\n\n\n\n