Cambridge University Press has reached a 75% OA milestone in 2026, with half its journals now fully open access. This marks a significant inflection point for one of the oldest and most prestigious STM publishers. As AI systems increasingly depend on open content for training and as publishers wrestle with content licensing frameworks, CUP's OA transition has direct relevance to the AI/scholarly publishing nexus that p2preview covers. Reflects the accelerating structural shift away from subscription models across major academic publishers.
Source: Knowledge Speak