More hybrid OA journals

Recently three publishers have announced new hybrid OA programs *. Wileys have made 45 of their biomedical titles into hybrid titles; Cambridge Univ Press 15 titles, in a variety of subjects; and BMJ publishing group have made all of their titles hybrid OA.

Taken alongside the hybrid OA programs of major publishers Elsevier, Blackwell, Springer, Oxford UP, and those of smaller publishers like the Royal Society, Company of Biologists, Biochemical Society and the US National Academy of Sciences, it looks liek hybrid is flavour of the day.

* Hybrid OA journals are those for which some articles within an issue are made available at no charge to the reader on the public Internet, but others are not. They permit authors or funding agencies to pay a publication fee in order to make their article available at no charge to the reader. A partial list of leading hybrid OA publishers and full OA publishers has been compiled by BioMedCentral.