Open Access Publishing Models and How OA Can Work in the Humanities
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EDITOR'S SUMMARY Open access (OA) has been shaping and benefitting the scientific community for years now, but this new wave of disseminating research freely has not quite taken hold in the field of humanities. Though humanities publishers could also benefit from an OA model, many have been resistant, citing possible issues with plagiarism or appropriation of an author's work for less than ideal uses. There are also challenges with the cost of publishing OA content, which for humanities could be much higher than in the scientific community due to the length of works produced. Some institutions have taken to charging authors to publish their content in an OA model, while others have opted for a membership structure or joining a consortium of other institutions, such as Knowledge Unlatched or the Open Library of Humanities. While many great strides have been taken to bring OA to humanities, there is still work to do to make the study of humanity accessible to all.
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The Humanities have different scholarship cultures compared to Natural Sciences and have been slow in adopting open access overall.
“The Humanities have different scholarship cultures as compared to the Natural Sciences and have been slow in adopting open access overall (Eve 2017;Gross and Ryan 2015).”
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- Authors
- Eve, M. P.
- Affiliations
- Cambridge University Press (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Eve, Martin Paul
- ORCID
- Eve, Martin Paul
- Venue
- Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2017-06
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 16-20
- ISSN
- 2373-9223 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2734884242
- Cited by
- 15
- References
- 6
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 2
- FWCI
- 8.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- BIROn (Birkbeck, University of London) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Publishing and Scholarly Communication
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Academic Publishing and Open Access
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Library Science and Information
- Keywords
- open access, open access publishing models, humanities publishing, scholarly communication, Knowledge Unlatched, Open Library of Humanities, author fees, plagiarism, publication costs
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