LibGuides: Open Access for Research Impact: Open Access and the Humanities

Humanities and Sciences: Different Open Access Contexts

Monographs and book chapters remain important outputs
National/language specific research
Integrity of the text
Greater inclusion of third party material within published work – copyright issues
Less grant & project funded research
Many more independent scholars
Less collaborative research
Started in the sciences - so the current model suits the sciences more; however the model is evolving

Projects and Developments

The UK's Higher Education Funding Council's (HEFCE) monographs and open access project
has reported on the role on the role of monographs in the arts, humanities and social sciences and on how they fit with increasingly open access approaches to research.
Jisc’s national monographs strategy 29 project
is developing plans for pilot projects and prototypes to create a shared open publishing platform for monographs.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
"The Foundation endeavors to strengthen, promote, and, where necessary, defend the contributions of the humanities and the arts to human flourishing and to the well-being of diverse and democratic societies. To this end, we support exemplary institutions of higher education and culture as they renew and provide access to an invaluable heritage of ambitious, path-breaking work."

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has made approximately 20 grants totalling $9.5 million since December 2014 to help explore alternative business models and build university and university press capacities for long-form publishing in digital formats.

Book Chapters: the Most Invisible Research Output

Book chapters are difficult to discover as they generally are not picked up by Google / Google Scholar or catalogues. However, once they are in an Open Access repository, they will become visible; take this example below - A changed Irish nationalism? In the Research Repository:

In Google Scholar: