How to implement hybrid Open Access in OJS? (OJS 3.3.0.11)

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Hello all, one of my journals is currently toll access and would like to adopt a hybrid OA model using APCs.

I’ve been investigating in the back end of OJS (currently running 3.3.0.11) and doing a little web searching about this. It seems that there’s no way to configure the submission and payment systems for hybrid OA - or am I mistaken?

The APC option in Payment > Payment Types only seems to allow for a global application of APCs to all submissions. As for as I can tell, there’s no way to request or receive ad hoc payments in Payment > Payment Types or in Distribution > Payments.

It appears, then, to implement a hybrid OA model using APCs, the editors would have to:

  1. State the option for making articles OA via APC;
  2. Request manual payment outside the OJS platform;
  3. Manually declare the articles as OA via the issue Table of Contents.

Does that sound right? Am I missing anything here?

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This is what we decided to do. We do peer-review off OJS now but if we migrate back, a modified selection would be best. And, this gets more complicated with NIH funded papers. They by default need to be open access, but to defer costs, we do need to collect APCs.

radjr

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