Social Science Space

Yesterday, SAGE co-hosted the event “Open Access Futures in the Humanities and Social Sciences.” The aim of the conference was […]

Monographs are an intrinsically important mode of academic production and must not be sacrificed on the altar of open access, argues Nigel Vincent in Debating Open Access, a new publication from the British Academy.

Open movements focus on the consumption of information but neglect to focus on its mode of production, writes Ziyad Marar […]

Open Access (OA) is not about abandoning peer review but it does provide the opportunity to rethink its role and […]

The issue of OA is technically, culturally and politically complex and deserves careful engagement by all scholars, writes Stephen Curry […]

In his chapter for Debating Open Access, a new publication from the British Academy, Chris Wickham considers the view from […]

Academic research is different in kind from industrial contract research where the funder determines the activity and therefore is entitled […]

The principles underlying the Finch report – access, usability, quality, cost and sustainability – are broadly to be commended, writes […]

Learned societies are a fundamental part of the research ecology, providing a substantial intellectual, public and reputational good, at minimal […]

The furious controversies of last year following the announcement of the new Research Councils UK policies on open access may have quietened down, but there remain many practical problems.

There is broad agreement is the desirability of wider access by readers to scholarly journal articles. There is less agreement on who these imagined readers might be.

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