Open Access

Rita Gardner reflects on open access and learned societies
Open Access
July 2, 2013

Rita Gardner reflects on open access and learned societies

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Debating Open Access
News
July 1, 2013

Debating Open Access

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Who Really, Really Wants Open Access?
News
June 22, 2013

Who Really, Really Wants Open Access?

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Open Access increases citation? A brief overview of two reports
Impact
March 26, 2013

Open Access increases citation? A brief overview of two reports

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Open Access and the Privatisation of Knowledge

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?

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How Useful are E-Readers for Academic Reading, Really?

How Useful are E-Readers for Academic Reading, Really?

E-readers are now commonplace. But how useful are e-readers as a replacement for printed academic books and journal articles?

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OA and the UK Humanities & Social Sciences

OA and the UK Humanities & Social Sciences

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.

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And Then There Were No Books

And Then There Were No Books

When the customs agent started to smile, I knew that things would go badly indeed. He told me that my books would not be allowed into the country, unless I paid a fine of 50 per cent of their current price (a lot of money, and more than I could possibly afford).

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OA and the Man from Del Monte…

OA and the Man from Del Monte…

Older readers may recall a series of advertisements on UK TV in the 1980s, featuring the Man from Del Monte. The international […]

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Implementing Finch Conference

Implementing Finch Conference

A two-day conference organised by the Academy of Social Sciences looked at the implementation of the recommendations of the Finch Review for Open Access publishing in the UK.

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War in History: Open Access Journals

War in History: Open Access Journals

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.

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Why Open Access is Good News for Neo-Nazis

Why Open Access is Good News for Neo-Nazis

Much of the debate on Open Access has concentrated on the shift from a subscription model that opens access for authors, while […]

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