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The American Educational Research Association, the nation’s largest professional organization devoted to the scientific study of education, has named three […]

A new project is trying to figure out what the future of the monograph will be in the age of open access.

Open access to research papers doesn’t mean much to researchers, argues Michael White, but the government hopes it’ll serve a greater public good.

The below post was originally published on The Conversation, and is kindly reposted here with their permission. Author – Ernesto […]

Since our founding, SAGE has been committed to both supporting and advocating the intrinsic value of social science research to […]

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 […]