Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Chris Wickham Considers OA in the UK and International Environment
In his chapter for Debating Open Access, a new publication from the British Academy, Chris Wickham considers the view from Humanities and […]
Robin Osborne on why open access makes no sense
Academic research is different in kind from industrial contract research where the funder determines the activity and therefore is entitled to decide […]
Stuart M. Shieber discusses ecumenical open access and the Finch report principles
The principles underlying the Finch report – access, usability, quality, cost and sustainability – are broadly to be commended, writes Stuart M. […]
Rita Gardner reflects on open access and learned societies
Learned societies are a fundamental part of the research ecology, providing a substantial intellectual, public and reputational good, at minimal cost to […]
Debating Open Access
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.
Who Really, Really Wants Open Access?
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.
Open Access increases citation? A brief overview of two reports
A comparison of two studies on the coverage and range of citations in Open Access, comparing OA and non-OA journals.
Open Access and the Privatisation of Knowledge
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?
