6 journals flip to open access under Edinburgh Subscribe to Open programme

We are delighted to announce that 6 of the 9 journals in our Subscribe to Open (S2O) programme have met their revenue thresholds and will publish their 2026 volumes open access (OA).

Publishing open access in 2026:

• Afghanistan
• Film-Philosophy – volume 30.1 available OA now
• Gothic Studies
• Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies – volume 25.1 available OA now
• Journal of Qur'anic Studies
• Modernist Cultures

We are very grateful to the institutions that have subscribed to these journals. Their support enables us to make high-quality humanities research freely available to readers worldwide, at no cost to authors.

What is S2O?

Subscribe to open is an open access model that converts a journal’s gated content to OA through using existing library payments and relationships. Institutions subscribe to journals in the usual fashion, and as long as sufficient revenue for the year is reached, the journal’s volume for the current year is published OA.

Find out more about Edinburgh Subscribe to Open and its benefits for authors and institutions.