There has been a recent flurry of activity around
Open Access (OA) as
Research Councils UK (RCUK) and the
Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) gear up to implement the recommendations of the
Finch report. As readers of this blog know, I have been interested in the emergence of new forms of publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) for a while now, and since becoming an editor of
Politics, my interest has sharpened. Those of you have read
earlier blogs will know I am very much in favour of OA, but
quite worried by the current proposals for so-called Gold OA (where open access is secured via the author or author’s institution paying an upfront
Article Processing Charge or APC). I also
perceive there to be a lack of detailed understanding of the whole infrastructure that lies submerged behind academic publishing: from peer review to the outreach activities of Learned Societies (disclaimer: I am trustee of the British International Studies Association) to mundane things like copy editing services.
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More Issues in Open Access(#OA)
Thursday, December 13th, 2012photo: Horia Varlan
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