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If you are reading this editorial, you are probably someone who cares as much about free dissemination of scientific information as I do. Readers want to have free access to high quality scientific articles. Authors want to have their work viewed by as many people as possible. Hence, an open-access model is a great idea. Given the costs need to be covered to allow a journal to be sustainable, a hybrid model offers this particular advantage, as well as an important additional one, related to non-discrimination for author access, that I will describe later. First, I would like to clarify what “open-access” is, since there is evidence that both authors and readers are confused.1 There are primarily three models for scientific journal publishing1: the “reader-pays” model, utilized by traditional (ie, non-open-access) journals2; the “author-pays” model, utilized in most open-access journals; and hybrid models that combine the two. A frequent misconception is to therefore equate the concepts of “open-access” and “free”: articles in open-access journals are not really “free”, but rather paid for upfront by the authors. That is, in open-access journals, the cost is picked up in large part by the authors, and not by the subscribers. The reverse is true in traditional journals (though some journals have a … Correspondence to Dr Lucila Ohno-Machado, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr, MC 0728, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; machado{at}ucsd.edu

A hybrid open-access model to bridge the publishing divide and reach out to a broader community