Open Access
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12554189 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Mussell (0000-0002-5697-1557, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 526-527 |
| Publication date | 2013-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Victorian Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1355-5502 • E-ISSN: 1750-0133 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13555502.2013.865980 |
| OpenAlex | W4244305250 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Open access is not new: there is a thriving culture of open access in the sciences and scholars in the digital humanities have been advocating open publication of research for some time to share methods, results and data.However, the British Government's recent endorsement of the Finch Report (officially titled 'Accessibility, sustainability, excellence: how to expand access to research publications: Report of the Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings'), has made open access a central concern for all researchers in UK higher education.The underlying economics and politics of journal publication are now under scrutiny as never before.While the Finch report provided a welcome endorsement of open access, its proposal for an author-pays version of 'gold' open access publishing, where costs of publishing were shifted from the customer (university libraries) onto the producer (scholars), was seen by many as a way of implementing open access without disturbing the status quo.Instead of purchasing research once it has been published, universities will pay for research to be published.While this model ensures an income stream for publishers (and it always costs something to publish), it reconfigures the relationship between scholars, their research and their institution.Long used to receiving little or no financial remuneration for their published work, scholars in the humanities are now asked to pay to give it away; whereas university libraries used to determine the research that scholars could access, now university managers will be forced to make decisions about where scholars can publish.To give an example, UK academics (or their institutions) wishing to make their articles open access in this journal will have to pay £1788 for it to appear right away, or wait 18 months to deposit their manuscript (the final version as agreed after the process of peer review, but not the published version) in an institutional repository.The resulting policy was tempered as a result of subsequent consultation, but there remain considerable areas of debate.The so-called 'green' route to publishing, where articles are made open access after their initial publication in a traditional, subscription-based journal, usually by means of deposit in an institutional repository, has focused attention on the embargo periods demanded by publishers
Business · Academic Publishing and Open Access · Computer Science · Publishing and Scholarly Communication · scientometrics and bibliometrics research
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |