Open Access: OA & 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 funded research
- Many more independent scholars
- Less collaborative research
- Open access first emerged in the sciences - so the current model suits the sciences more; however the model is evolving
- Open Access Books - what, why & howPresentation given to UCD staff and students, Feb 2020
- An Academic’s Guide to Open AccessA guide from Open Book Publishers
- Publishing your open access PhD thesis as a monographAdvice on publishing a book from an open access thesis - from Cambridge Office of Scholarly Communication.
Open Access Book Publishers
- DOAB: Directory of Open Access BooksA directory of academic peer-reviewed books from many publishers.
- Publishers of OA booksPart of the Open Access Directory (OAD), maintained by the OA community at large, and hosted by Simmons University.
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 Google Scholar:
Open Access in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Part of Module 6 of the Open Science MOOC, on Open Access to Research Papers
OLH : Open Library of Humanities
The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is a charitable organisation dedicated to publishing open access scholarship without author article processing charges (APCs). It is funded by an international consortium of libraries who have joined OLH in its mission to make scholarly publishing fairer, more accessible, and rigorously preserved for the digital future. Its partner libraries include those of the seven Irish universities, including UCD.
All of its academic articles are subject to rigorous peer review and the scholarship that OLH publishes showcases some of the most dynamic research taking place in the humanities disciplines today – from classics, modern languages and cultures, philosophy, theology and history, to political theory, sociology, anthropology, film and new media studies, and digital humanities.
OLH’s mission is to support and extend open access to scholarship in the humanities – for free, for everyone, for ever.
- Open Library of HumanitiesThe Open Library of Humanities does not charge any author fees. Instead, publishing costs are paid by an international library consortium.
GoTriple - Social Sciences and Humanities Open Scholarly Resources
- GoTriple - Social Sciences & Humanities OA DiscoveryGoTriple is multilingual discovery platform for open scholarly resources in the social sciences and humanities (SSH). It provides a central access point for discovering and reusing research artefacts in the Social Sciences & Humanities. Content includes publications and research data, project descriptions and researcher profiles imported from aggregators and source providers.
Other Projects and Developments
- The State of Open MonographsReport from Digital Science addressing the question of how we integrate and value monographs in the increasingly open digital scholarly network (June 2019)
- Towards a Roadmap for Open Access MonographsThis report (May 2019) outlines the key findings and recommendations coming out of the Knowledge Exchange (KE) Stakeholder Workshop on Open Access and Monographs, which took place in Brussels in November 2018.
- The UK's Higher Education Funding Council's (HEFCE) monographs and open access projecthas 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 projectis developing plans for pilot projects and prototypes to create a shared open publishing platform for monographs.
- List of book publishers compliant with major research fundersBook publishers that comply with the open access requirements of the European Research Council, Wellcome, and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
- OPERAS Open Access Business Models White Paper"Analyses the pros and cons of different models, and concludes with some suggestions for ways of bringing greater stability and sustainability to Open Access publishing models".
- Emerging Perspectives in Open Access Book PublishingWebinar featuring the experiences of OA book publishing from the perspective of authors, series editors and publishers
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