Social Science Space

The Oscars have been awarded! But just how does winning an award affect the prizewinner? Not the way you would […]

Trying to publish a paper in an academic journal can be a frustrating process for both the author and the […]

In the December issue editorial of Family Business Review, published online today, Professor Mike Wright, Imperial College and Professor Pramodita Sharma, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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?

All criticism of the genre notwithstanding, textbooks do have a central role to play in turning sociology students into sociologists. Sometimes I do wonder, however, whether it is time to re-invent the textbook.

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.

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.