The Journal's publisher, Pluto Journals, successfully reached the goal to flip its complete journal portfolio of 21 titles to Open Access from 2021 onwards. The project “Pluto Open Journals” was realised in partnership with Knowledge Unlatched, and supported by the conceivers of the ground-breaking Subscribe-to-Open (S2O) model Libraria, a group of anthropologists and other social scientists committed to Open Access. Pluto Journals has asked those libraries and institutions currently subscribing to any of the journals to renew for 2021 on a S2O basis, thus contributing to making these journals completely free to readers and authors all over the world.

This presents a great opportunity for the Journal and for authors submitting their research, such as in our upcoming call for papers here. You can now read our back issues from 2008 onwards online for free and our future issues will be Open Access. When we established the Journal in 2006, we aimed for it to be international, interdisciplinary, accessible to non-academics and to contribute to the development of a dialogue among scholars and policy makers about the future of work. We hope that the move to Open Access will help us continue to foster a reputation as a respected and widely cited source on the changing nature of work,