Table 1
Hybrid OA overview by publisher (December 2015)
| Hybrid OA overview | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher | Hybrid program name | Year began | No of journals participating |
| Elsevier | Elsevier Open Access | 2006 | 1,690 out of 3,696 |
| Nature Publishing Group | NPG Open | 2007 | 78 out of 136 |
| SAGE Publications | SAGE Choice | 2006 | 769 out of 800 |
| Springer BV | Springer Open Choice | 2004 | 1,657 out of 2,181 |
| John Wiley & Sons | Wiley Open Access | 2004 | 743 out of 1,500 |
Table 2
Cost of hybrid publication by publisher (2016)
| Cost of hybrid publishing | ||
|---|---|---|
| Publisher | Average hybrid APCs | Intermixed with subscriptions? |
| Elsevier | US$500-US$5,000 | No, completely separate |
| Nature Publishing Group | US$1,350-US$5,200 | Discount given on subscriptions |
| SAGE Publications | US$750-US$3,000 | Discounts given on subscriptions but not on packages |
| Springer BV | US$3,000 | Website notes they take OA into consideration re. subscription cost |
| John Wiley & Sons | US$3,000 | Discounts given on subscriptions |
Table 3
Usage by year, percentage of GOA usage, publisher and institution
| Downloads for 2014 and 2015 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portland State University | 2014 | 2015 | University of Nebraska Medical Center | 2014 | 2015 |
| Elsevier total usage | 190,658 | 192,618 | Elsevier total usage | 212,433 | 259,119 |
| Elsevier GOA usage | 4,010 | 7,570 | Elsevier GOA usage | 7,895 | 13,757 |
| % of Elsevier GOA usage | 2.1% | 3.9% | % of Elsevier GOA usage | 3.7% | 5.3% |
| Nature PG total usage | 16,978 | 18,635 | Nature PG total usage | 77,041 | 86,627 |
| Nature PG GOA usage | 1,353 | 2,136 | Nature PG GOA usage | 6,537 | 12,034 |
| % of Nature PG GOA usage | 8.0% | 11.5% | % of Nature PG GOA usage | 8.5% | 13.9% |
| Sage total usage | 92,730 | 62,199 | Sage total usage | 17,886 | 20,622 |
| Sage GOA usage | 279 | 254 | Sage GOA usage | 687 | 311 |
| % of SAGE GOA usage | 0.3% | 0.4% | % of SAGE GOA usage | 3.8% | 1.5% |
| Springer total usage | 45,248 | 39,966 | Springer Total usage | 23,484 | 35,696 |
| Springer GOA usage | 2,221 | 2,468 | Springer GOA usage | 2,445 | 2,681 |
| % of Springer GOA usage | 4.9% | 6.2% | % of Springer GOA usage | 10.4% | 7.5% |
| Wiley total usage | 90,644 | 71,512 | |||
| Wiley GOA usage | 1,159 | 1,611 | |||
| % of Wiley GOA usage | 1.3% | 2.3% | |||
Table 4
Journals with the highest number of GOA full-text article requests (‘top’) by institution
| Top GOA titles 2014 | |
|---|---|
| Portland State University | University of Nebraska Medical Center |
| 1. PNAS (National Academy of Sciences) | 1. PNAS (National Academy of Sciences) |
| 2. Nature (NPG) | 2. Nature (NPG) |
| 3. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences (Elsevier) | 3. Journal of Biological Chemistry (ASBMB) |
| 4. BioScience (AIBS) | 4. British Journal of Cancer (NPG) |
| 5. BMJ Quality & Safety (BMJ) | 5. American Journal of Pathology (Elsevier) |
| 6. Northwest Science (NSA) | 6. Oncogene (NPG) |
| 7. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (Royal Society) | 7. Bioinformatics (OUP) |
| 8. Energy Procedia (Elsevier) | 8. The Lancet (Elsevier) |
| 9. Climatic Change (Springer) | 9. Genome Research (Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory Press) |
| 10. Journal of Homosexuality (Taylor & Francis) | 10. Journal of Hepatology (Elsevier) |