Many OA publishers have simply shifted expenses to authors. They often must pay upfront “article processing charges” [APCs] and “book processing charges” [BPCs], which still impedes the circulation of knowledge, albeit in different ways. The Radical Open Access Collective thinks there are better ways. That’s why it came together in 2015 to form a community now comprised of 70 scholar-led, not-for-profit presses, journals and other open access projects. ROAC is committed to developing and championing “non-commercial, not-for-profit and/or commons-based models for the creation and dissemination of academic knowledge.” “What brings the scholar-led projects of the Radical Open Access Collective together,” its website declares, “is a shared investment in taking back control over the means of production in order to rethink what publishing is and what it can be.

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