The Hybrid Model for Open Access Publication of Scholarly Articles – a Failed Experiment?

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

Use the link above to access the full text of the article. The article has been accepted for publication by the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. The current article has been self-archived at www.openaccesspublishing.org. Three additional articles, including, “[1] Publication Fees in Open Access Publishing: Sources of Funding and Factors Influencing Choice of Journal [2] A Study of Open Access Journals Using Article Processing Charges [3] Pricing Principles used by Scholarly Open Access Publishers,” are also self-archived at the same site. Additionally, articles on various OA topics have been archived by the author on his professional webpage at the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Helsinki, Finland at The abstract for the current article is as follows: “Mainstream scholarly publishers have since 2004 started to offer authors in subscription journals the possibility to free their individual articles from access barriers against a payment (hybrid OA). This has been marketed as a possible gradual transition path between subscription and open access to the scholarly journal literature, and the publishers have pledged to decrease their subscription prices in proportion to the uptake of the hybrid option. The number of hybrid journals has doubled in the past couple of years and is now over 4,300, and the number of such articles was around 12,000 in 2011. On average only 1-2 % of eligible authors utilize the OA option, due mainly to the generally high price level of typically 3,000 USD. There are, however, a few publishers and individual journals with a much higher uptake. This article takes a closer look at the development of hybrid OA and discusses, from an author-centric viewpoint, the possible reasons for the lack of success of this business model.” “The specific aims of this study were thus to: [1] Study the development in the number of hybrid journals and articles, as well as uptake levels on the global level [2] Study cases of publishers and journals with significantly higher uptake levels and to find out possible explanations for this relative success [3] To draw conclusions about the success or failure of the hybrid ‘experiment [p. 4]’”

Link:

http://www.openaccesspublishing.org/

Updated:

08/16/2012, 06:08

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » Connotea Imports
Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.events oa.gold oa.business_models oa.publishers oa.licensing oa.copyright oa.prices oa.hybrid oa.fees oa.case.journals oa.michigan.state.u oa.hanken oa.studies oa.case.sustainability oa.libre oa.journals

Authors:

abernard

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 23:02

Date published:

03/29/2012, 20:32