[Irtalk] The sheer scale of hybrid journal publishing | Open Access Working Group

[Hilton Gibson]

The last few years have seen a significant rise in what are termed ‘hybrid
open access journals’, where only some of the articles are freely available
to read and a subscription is still required to read the remainder. As many
journals require payment from authors to publish in this fashion, then
university libraries need to pay subscriptions to read the remaining
articles, publishers are in effect being paid twice for the same work.

With recently published data from the Wellcome Trust, *the scale of this
double charging has become much more clear.*

http://access.okfn.org/2014/03/24/scale-hybrid-journals-publishing/
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