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Yesterday, SAGE co-hosted the event “Open Access Futures in the Humanities and Social Sciences.” The aim of the conference was […]
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Blog posts and resources relating to Open Access in the social sciences
Yesterday, SAGE co-hosted the event “Open Access Futures in the Humanities and Social Sciences.” The aim of the conference was […]
9 years agoMonographs 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.
10 years agoOpen movements focus on the consumption of information but neglect to focus on its mode of production, writes Ziyad Marar […]
10 years agoOpen Access (OA) is not about abandoning peer review but it does provide the opportunity to rethink its role and […]
10 years agoThe issue of OA is technically, culturally and politically complex and deserves careful engagement by all scholars, writes Stephen Curry […]
10 years agoIn his chapter for Debating Open Access, a new publication from the British Academy, Chris Wickham considers the view from […]
10 years agoAcademic research is different in kind from industrial contract research where the funder determines the activity and therefore is entitled […]
10 years agoThe principles underlying the Finch report – access, usability, quality, cost and sustainability – are broadly to be commended, writes […]
10 years agoLearned societies are a fundamental part of the research ecology, providing a substantial intellectual, public and reputational good, at minimal […]
10 years agoThe 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.
10 years agoThere 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.
10 years agoA comparison of two studies on the coverage and range of citations in Open Access, comparing OA and non-OA journals.
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