Tag: Open Access

Digital Forum: Open Access

Digital Forum, Published in JVC

Jim Mussell (University of Leeds) The British Government’s endorsement of the Finch Report (officially titled ‘Accessibility, sustainability, excellence: how to expand access to research publications: Report of the Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings’) last year raised the profile of open access and it has remained on the agenda ever since.  As the research ecosystem in the UK adapts, the underlying economics and politics of journal publication are under scrutiny as never before. While the Finch report’s

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Thinking about Open Access in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Digital Forum

Katie McGettigan & Jo Taylor, Keele University JISC Conference: Open Access Monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 1-2 July 2013 So you spend three or four years chained to your computer. You read so many books and articles that your dreams start to conform to the MHRA style guide. You have moments of pure excited joy and (usually longer) moments of unadulterated despair. And at the end of it all, you produce your thesis, your article, or your book.

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New Year’s Resolution: Let’s Self-Archive

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Helen Rogers (Liverpool John Moores Univeristy, Editor of Journal of Victorian Culture) In July 2012 the British government declared the UK would take the lead in accelerating the drive towards Open Access. It would kick-start a stuttering global movement by mandating that publicly-funded research in the UK must be published in open access journals. This was a bold policy turn, taken it would seem with little international consultation, to the so-called ‘gold’ or ‘author pays’ open access model where publication

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Let’s talk Open Access

Editors' Blog, Victorians Beyond the Academy

Lucinda Matthews-Jones (LJMU) These are the views of the author. Overview We need to start talking about Open Access. If the Academy of Social Sciences conference that I attended last week reinforced anything to me, it is the speed with which open access is already being implemented. Many of us are unaware of what is happening. I have been surprised by the lack of conversation surrounding the implications of the Finch Report. We should not assume that open access is

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