The British Academy has published a series of 8 newly commissioned articles reflecting on the challenges and opportunities for humanities and social sciences open access publishing practices.
Debating Open Access - edited by British Academy Vice-Presidents Professor Nigel Vincent and Professor Chris Wickham - demonstrates that there is still much work to be done in ensuring that government policies to mandate open access publication do not damage the quality and reputation of UK academic research.
The collection includes contributions from experts across the spectrum of humanities and social sciences research. These include Dr Rita Gardner, Director of the Royal Geographical Society; Professor Stuart M. Shieber, founding director of Harvard University's Office for Scholarly Communication; Professor Chris Wickham, British Academy Vice President (Publications); Professor Stephen Curry of Imperial College; Dr Martin Paul Eve, director of the Open Library of the Humanities; Ziyad Marar, Global Publishing Director at SAGE; Professor Robin Osborne of Cambridge University; and Professor Nigel Vincent, British Academy Vice President (Research and Higher Education).
The full collection and individual articles is available to read and download from July 1, 2013 at www.britac.ac.uk/openaccess.
