The Journal of Perinatal Medicine is switching its publication model to open access
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Joachim W. Dudenhausen
The new year brings exciting changes for the Journal of Perinatal Medicine (JPM). In cooperation with the editors, the publisher will convert the journal to Diamond Open Access in accordance with the Subscribe to Open (S2O) model, on a year-by-year basis.
Diamond Open Access refers to scholarly publication models in which no fees are charged to either authors or readers. Subscribe to Open enables the conversion of subscription journals to open access by the annual continuation of existing subscriptions. This alternative, sustainable and equitable approach was developed in 2019 by the US publisher Annual Reviews and since then, a growing number of publishers and libraries have opted for S2O and joined forces in the Community of Practice.
The prerequisite for a successful transition is that subscriptions are continued to the same extent as before in 2020/2021 in the publisher launched a pilot project that has proven to be a real success story. The S2O portfolio currently comprises 21 titles, with plans to transfer a further 37 journals to the S2O program by 2025 and up to 90 % of the journal portfolio by 2028. The shift to S2O does not entail any changes to the setup of the journal and the print edition will be maintained.
For the Journal of Perinatal Medicine, this means that from 2025, after successful annual review of subscription renewals, all articles in the volume will be published under the Creative Commons CC-BY license without any publication costs for the authors. Under the CC-BY license, the copyright is assigned to the authors, and it allows re-users to distribute, remix, adapt and build upon the material in any medium or format, as long as attribution is given to the authors.
In the first year, the analysis of renewals will continue until the end of February with the results being announced at the beginning of March. We are confident that the JPM will from then on be published in open access format. All articles that have been published in 2025 up to this point will then also be retrospectively converted to open access. For this reason, we postpone the first three issues of the year by one month each, as the open access license cannot be adjusted retrospectively in the issues that have already been printed. In subsequent years, this analysis will be completed in December.
We acknowledge the general movement towards open access and that its proportion in the fields of obstetrics, neonatology and perinatal medicine has increased significantly in recent years. Above all, we are aware of the enormous social need to make rational, accurate information available to everyone and thus promoting scientific developments as best as possible.
With S2O, we aim to eliminate barriers not only at the end of the authors, who may not have the means to cover Article Processing Charges (APCs), but also for our readers. Open access increases visibility, reach, and overall impact of the published research. Initial analyses of the current S2O portfolio show that the published Open access content is used up to seven times more than paywalled articles, and the number of countries from which the content is accessed has increased massively. The editors of JPM and the publisher would therefore like to thank all subscribers for their support in leading the journal into an open access future.
You can easily support the S2O model of JPM by renewing your existing subscription in the usual way or reaching out to your librarian and recommend a subscription for 2025. Please refer to the De Gruyter website or contact the editorial office.
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Author contributions: The author has accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.
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Use of Large Language Models, AI and Machine Learning Tools: None declared.
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Conflict of interest: The author states no conflict of interest.
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Research funding: None declared.
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Data availability: Not applicable.
© 2025 the author(s), published by De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- The Journal of Perinatal Medicine is switching its publication model to open access
- Original Articles – Obstetrics
- The early COVID-19 pandemic period and associated gestational weight gain
- Evaluation of fetal growth and birth weight in pregnancies with placenta previa with and without placenta accreta spectrum
- Nutritional guidance through digital media for glycemic control of women with gestational diabetes mellitus: a randomized clinical trial
- Adverse perinatal outcomes related to pregestational obesity or excessive weight gain in pregnancy
- Maternal and fetal outcomes among pregnant women with endometriosis
- The role of the lower uterine segment thickness in predicting preterm birth in twin pregnancies presenting with threatened preterm labor
- Effect of combination of uterine artery doppler and vitamin D level on perinatal outcomes in second trimester pregnant women
- Contemporary prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease in a regional perinatal center lacking onsite pediatric cardiac surgery: obstetrical and neonatal outcomes
- How time influences episiotomy utilization and obstetric anal sphincter injuries (OASIS)
- The first 2-year prospective audit of prenatal cell-free deoxyribonucleic screening using single nucleotide polymorphisms approach in a single academic laboratory
- Original Articles – Fetus
- Evaluating fetal pulmonary vascular development in congenital heart disease: a comparative study using the McGoon index and multiple parameters of fetal echocardiography
- Antenatal corticosteroids for late small-for-gestational-age fetuses
- A systematic catalog of studies on fetal heart rate pattern and neonatal outcome variables
- Original Articles – Neonates
- Comparison of cord blood alarin levels of full-term infants according to birth weight
- Reviewer Acknowledgment
- Reviewer Acknowledgment
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- The Journal of Perinatal Medicine is switching its publication model to open access
- Original Articles – Obstetrics
- The early COVID-19 pandemic period and associated gestational weight gain
- Evaluation of fetal growth and birth weight in pregnancies with placenta previa with and without placenta accreta spectrum
- Nutritional guidance through digital media for glycemic control of women with gestational diabetes mellitus: a randomized clinical trial
- Adverse perinatal outcomes related to pregestational obesity or excessive weight gain in pregnancy
- Maternal and fetal outcomes among pregnant women with endometriosis
- The role of the lower uterine segment thickness in predicting preterm birth in twin pregnancies presenting with threatened preterm labor
- Effect of combination of uterine artery doppler and vitamin D level on perinatal outcomes in second trimester pregnant women
- Contemporary prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease in a regional perinatal center lacking onsite pediatric cardiac surgery: obstetrical and neonatal outcomes
- How time influences episiotomy utilization and obstetric anal sphincter injuries (OASIS)
- The first 2-year prospective audit of prenatal cell-free deoxyribonucleic screening using single nucleotide polymorphisms approach in a single academic laboratory
- Original Articles – Fetus
- Evaluating fetal pulmonary vascular development in congenital heart disease: a comparative study using the McGoon index and multiple parameters of fetal echocardiography
- Antenatal corticosteroids for late small-for-gestational-age fetuses
- A systematic catalog of studies on fetal heart rate pattern and neonatal outcome variables
- Original Articles – Neonates
- Comparison of cord blood alarin levels of full-term infants according to birth weight
- Reviewer Acknowledgment
- Reviewer Acknowledgment
