Use of the paid OA option in hybrid OA journals in agriculture Megan Kocher and Julie Kelly Magrath Library University of Minnesota

What is Hybrid OA? Traditional journals Authors pay to make their individual articles freely accessible Typically $2500 to $3000 Other articles in the journal remain behind a pay wall

Purpose of the study Levels of use of OA option in hybrid journals Author motivations Costs

Methods - OA use Selected publishers of ag journals offering hybrid OA Cambridge Elsevier Oxford Springer Taylor and Francis Wiley

6 Publishers, 168 Journals

Methods - OA use List of agriculture journals for each publisher Excluded all OA or no hybrid option Assigned a subspecialty Noted methods for locating OA articles For , counted all research articles and OA research articles

Methods - Survey Faculty and researchers in U of M agriculture-related departments Have you published in a hybrid journal? Have you paid for OA in a hybrid journal? Source of the funds? What factors influence you? How have you redistributed your OA articles? Where?

Results

4.69% OA Articles Published in our Sample

By publisher

By sub-discipline

Survey findings: Respondents and departments Animal Science Applied Economics Agronomy and Plant Genetics Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering Entomology Food Science and Nutrition Horticultural Science Plant Pathology Soil, Water and Climate 29 total: 21 Full professors, 2 Associate professors, 7 Assistant professors

Have you published in a journal that offers a hybrid open access option?

Have you ever paid for the open access option when publishing in a hybrid open access journal?

What sources of funding have you used to pay for making an article open access?

When publishing in a journal that offers hybrid open access, what influences your decision about paying for open access?

Discussion/Conclusions The hybrid model does not result in a lot of OA output Cost is prohibitive Must be built it into funding/grants Publishers may not highlight OA articles on their websites

What can librarians do to promote OA? Encourage posting of OA papers in additional locations Promote low cost fully OA journals Publicize open access publishing funds Advocate other models (e.g. embargoes, retaining rights, library-based publishing, open journal systems)

Questions?

Thank you Megan Kocher - Julie Kelly -

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