Open Access

Blog posts and resources relating to Open Access in the social sciences

Open Access increases citation? A brief overview of two reports

By Kamil Mizera | Published: March 26, 2013

A comparison of two studies on the coverage and range of citations in Open Access, comparing OA and non-OA journals.

Also posted in Impact, International Debate, News | Tagged academic publishing, Citations, Comparison, Downloads, Graph, impact, Journals, Michael Norris, OA, open access | 1 Comment

Open Access and the Privatisation of Knowledge

By Martin Eve | Published: March 25, 2013

Is OA the flip side to privatisation of Higher Education? Is there a way in which OA is a means of justifying the economic inaccessibility of HE by providing a public good?

Also posted in Communication, Higher Education Reform, Impact, International Debate, News, Public Engagement | Tagged academic publishing, humanities, Martin Eve, neoliberalism, open access, Privatisation, privatization, Publishing, social science | 1 Comment

OA and the UK Humanities & Social Sciences

By Cameron Neylon | Published: January 4, 2013

The opportunity for H&SS to reach much wider audiences who appreciate the value of their work generally, and to reach those specific people who will make important use of it is enormous.

Also posted in Featured, Impact, News, Public Engagement, Public Policy | Tagged Academic Books, Academic Writing, Finch Report, Gold Route, Journals, OA, open access, Publishing, research, social science | 2 Comments

And Then There Were No Books

By Daniel Nehring | Published: December 23, 2012

When the customs agent started to smile, I knew that things would go badly indeed. He told me that my books would not be allowed into the country, unless I paid a fine of 50 per cent of their current price (a lot of money, and more than I could possibly afford).

Also posted in Featured, International Debate | Tagged academia, OA, open access, Paywall, social science, teaching, Textbooks | 3 Comments

Implementing Finch Conference

By Academy of Social Sciences | Published: December 4, 2012

A two-day conference organised by the Academy of Social Sciences looked at the implementation of the recommendations of the Finch Review for Open Access publishing in the UK.

Also posted in Academic Funding, Communication, Featured, Impact, News, Public Engagement, Public Policy, Resources, Videos | Tagged academy of social science, David Green, Felice Levine, Janet Finch, Jude England, Lynne Brindley, Martin Hall, Maureen Duffy, open access, Paul Hubbard, Philip Carpenter, Rita Gardner, Robert Dingwall, Routledge, SAGE, Sally Hardy, Tim Blackman, Wiley, Ziyad Marar | 5 Comments

War in History: Open Access Journals

By Simon Ball | Published: October 24, 2012

Simon Ball, Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Glasgow, discusses the dangers of Gold Route OA to the Humanities and scholarship in general.

Also posted in Academic Funding, Announcements, Featured, International Debate, News | Tagged academic journals, academic publishing, ERIH, European Science Foundation, Finch Report, Glasgow University, OA, open access, open access publishing, Publishing, Simon Ball, UK Higher Education Arts and Humanities, UKHE, vanity publishing | 3 Comments

Why Open Access is Good News for Neo-Nazis

By Robert Dingwall | Published: October 17, 2012

Much of the debate on Open Access has concentrated on the shift from a subscription model that opens access for authors, while restricting access for readers, to a publication charge model that restricts access for authors, while opening access for readers. The proposed requirement to publish under a Creative Commons CC-BY licence may, though, be [...]

Also posted in Communication, Impact, International Debate, News, Public Engagement, Public Policy, Research Ethics, Resources | 15 Comments

Implementing Finch

By SAGE | Published: September 28, 2012

Bookings are now open for a two-day Conference organised by the Academy of Social Sciences and kindly sponsored by the THE, Routledge, Wiley Blackwell and SAGE to look at the implementation of the recommendations of the Finch Review for Open Access publishing in the UK. Find out more

Also posted in Announcements, News | Tagged open access | Leave a comment

Open Access publishing: A Personal View

By ssseditor | Published: September 20, 2012

We are personally skeptical about many of the major premises of Open Access Publishing, and we are certain that many of the potential implications have not been thought through. The Finch Report pays remarkably little heed to the detailed arrangements that may need to be put in place.

Also posted in Communication, Featured, International Debate, News | Tagged Cardiff, Dame Janet Finch, Exeter, Finch Report, Gold Route, open access, Paul Atkinson, Publishing, Qualitative Research, Sara Delamont | 4 Comments

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