No-fee OA Journals in the Humanities, Three Case Studies: A Presentation by Open Humanities Press

Jottkandt, S.A No-fee OA Journals in the Humanities, Three Case Studies: A Presentation by Open Humanities Press., 2008 . In Berlin 5 Open Access: From Practice to Impact: Consequences of Knowledge Dissemination, Padua, Italy, 19-21 September, 2008. (Unpublished) [Conference paper]

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Open Humanities Press (OHP) is the first open access publisher devoted to contemporary critical theory. OHP was created as a grassroots movement of academics, librarians, journal editors and technology specialists to address the growing inequality of readers' access to critical materials necessary for our research. In this presentation, I offer case studies of journals edited by the founders of the new OA academic journal consortium, Open Humanities Press, as a starting point for a discussion of how professional open access publishing may be achieved without author-side fees (a ‘business model’ that for both practical and cultural reasons is inappropriate in the context of humanities publishing). While reputable open access publishing in the humanities confronts significant challenges, the problem of how to finance it - the problem that is frequently raised as the Gold path’s chief obstacle in the sciences - appears far and away the least pressing.

Item type:	Conference paper
Keywords:	open access, humanities, electronic publishing, digital technologies, public knowledge project, open journal systems
Subjects:	E. Publishing and legal issues. > EB. Printing, electronic publishing, broadcasting.
Depositing user:	Sigi Jottkandt
Date deposited:	17 May 2009
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:14
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/13121

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