Reading list.
This reading list is curated by OLH staff as part of our advocacy programme.
We want to provide humanities scholars and librarians with the critical tools to support their own open-access advocacy.
The list is dynamic and growing, and we welcome your suggestions!
- Adema, Janneke, ‘Overview of Open Access Models for Ebooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences’, Oapen, March, 2010 <https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/228144629.pdf> [accessed 15 February 2024]
- Adema, Janneke, and Gary Hall, ‘The Political Nature of the Book: On Artists’ Books and Radical Open Access’, New Formations, 78 (2013), 138–56 <https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/files/4025104/The%20political%20nature%20of%20the%20book.pdf> [accessed 15 February 2024]
- Adema, Janneke, and Samuel Moore,‘Scaling Small; Or How to Envision New Relationalities for Knowledge Production’, Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture 16(1), (2021) 27-45: <https://doi.org/10.16997/wpcc.918>
- Adema, Janneke, and Samuel Moore, ‘Collectivity and Collaboration: Imagining New Forms of Communality to Create Resilience in Scholar-Led Publishing’, UKSG Insights, 31 (2018) <https://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.399>
- Ancion, Zoé, Lidia Borrell-Damián, Pierre Mounier, Johan Rooryck, and Bregt Saenen, ‘Action Plan for Diamond Open Access’, Science Europe, cOAlition S, OPERAS, and the French National Research Agency (ANR), (2022, March 2) <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6282402>
- Becerril, Arianna, Lars Bjørnshauge, Jeroen Bosman, Jan Erik Frantsvåg, Bianca Kramer, Pierre-Carl Langlais, Vanessa Proudman, Claire Redhead, Didier Torny, and Pierre Mounier, ‘The OA Diamond Journals Study’, Science Europe and cOAlition S. (2021, March 9): <https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.4562790>
- Beverungen, Armin, Steffen Bohm, and Christopher Land, ‘The Poverty of Journal Publishing’, Organization, 19, 929–38 <https://repository.essex.ac.uk/6179/1/The_Poverty_of_Journal_Publishing-proof.pdf>
- Beverungen, Armin, Steffen Böhm, and Christopher Land, ‘From the Open Road to the High Seas? Piracy, Damnation and Resistance in Academic Consumption of Publishing’, Prometheus, 31 (2013), 241–47 <http://repository.essex.ac.uk/9696/>
- Boshears, Paul F, ‘Open Access Publishing as a Para-Academic Proposition: OA as Labour Relation’, TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 11 (2013), 614–19 <https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v11i2.529>
- Chan, Leslie, editors. Contextualizing Openness: Situating Open Science.(Canada: University of Ottawa Press, (2019) <https://www.idrc.ca/en/book/contextualizing-openness-situating-open-science>
- Deville, Joe, ‘Open Access Publishing and the Future of the University’, Mattering Press, (29 September 2016) <https://www.matteringpress.org/blog/open-access-publishing-and-the-future-of-the-university> [accessed 15 February 2024]
- Deville, Joe, Jeroen Sondervan, Graham Stone, and Sofie Wennström, ‘Rebels with a Cause? Supporting Library and Academic-led Open Access Publishing’, LIBER Quarterly, 29(1) (2019), pp.1–28 <http://doi.org/10.18352/lq.10277>
- Eve, Martin Paul, and Caroline Edwards, ‘Opening the Open Library of Humanities’, Open Library of Humanities, 1 (2015) <https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.46>
- Eve, Martin Paul, ‘All That Glisters: Investigating Collective Funding Mechanisms for Gold Open Access in Humanities Disciplines’, Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 2 (2014) <http://doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.1131>
- ———, ‘How Learned Societies Could Flip to Open Access, With No Author-Facing Charges, Using a Consortial Model’, Martin Paul Eve, 2018 <https://eve.gd/2018/01/21/how-learned-societies-could-flip-to-oa-using-a-consortial-model/> [accessed 15 February 2024]
- ———, ‘How Much Does It Cost to Run a Small Scholarly Publisher?’, Martin Paul Eve, 2017 <https://eve.gd/2017/02/13/how-much-does-it-cost-to-run-a-small-scholarly-publisher/> [accessed 15 February 2024]
- ———, ‘Librarian Evaluation of Non-APC OA Models in the Age of Open Access’, Martin Paul Eve, 2018 <https://eve.gd/2017/04/01/librarian-evaluation-of-non-apc-oa-models-in-the-age-of-open-access/> [accessed 15 February 2024]
- ———, ‘On the Economics of Flipping Subscription Journals’, Martin Paul Eve, 2017 <https://eve.gd/2017/03/11/on-the-economics-of-flipping-subscription-journals/> [accessed 15 February 2024]
- ———, Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014) <http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316161012>
- ———, ‘Open Access Resources and Evaluation; or: Why OA Journals Might Fare Badly in Terms of Conventional Usage’, Martin Paul Eve, 2018 <https://eve.gd/2018/01/19/open-access-resources-and-evaluation-or-why-oa-journals-might-fare-badly-in-terms-of-usage/> [accessed 15 February 2024]
- Eve, Martin Paul, and Andy Byers, ‘Janeway: A Scholarly Communications Platform’, UKSG Insights, 31: 15, 1–4 (2018) <https://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.396>
- Eve, Martin Paul, Paula Clemente Vega, and Caroline Edwards, ‘Lessons From the Open Library of Humanities’. LIBER Quarterly, 30, (2020) pp.1–18 <http://doi.org/10.18352/lq.10327>
- Eve, Martin Paul, Kitty Inglis, David Prosser, Lara Speicher, and Graham Stone, ‘Cost Estimates of an Open Access Mandate for Monographs in the UK’s Third Research Excellence Framework’, UKSG Insights, 30 (2017) <https://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.392>
- Eve, Martin Paul, and Ernesto Priego, ‘Who Is Actually Harmed by Predatory Publishers?’, TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 15 (2017), 755–70 <https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v15i2.867>
- Eve, Martin Paul, and Jonathan Gray, editors. Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access. (MIT Press, 2021) <https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11885.001.0001>
- François Waldner et al., ‘The academic, economic and societal impacts of Open Access: an evidence-based review’, F1000Res 5 (2016): 632: <https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.8460.3 >
- Fiormonte, Domenico, and Ernesto Priego, ‘Knowledge Monopolies and Global Academic Publishing’, The Winnower, 5 (2016) <http://doi.org/10.15200/winn.147220.00404>
- Fuchs, Christian, and Marisol Sandoval, ‘The Diamond Model of Open Access Publishing: Why Policy Makers, Scholars, Universities, Libraries, Labour Unions and the Publishing World Need to Take Non-Commercial, Non-Profit Open Access Serious’, TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 11 (2013), 428–43 <https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v11i2.502>
- Grudniewicz, Agnes, David Moher, Kelly D. Cobey, and others, ‘Predatory journals: no definition, no defence’, Nature, 576 (2019) <http://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03759-y>
- Harvie, David, Geoff Lightfoot, Simon Lilley, and Kenneth Weir, ‘Publisher, Be Damned! From Price Gouging to the Open Road’, Prometheus, 31 (2013), 229–39 <http://figshare.com/articles/Publisher_be_damned_From_price_gouging_to_the_open_road/1046703>
- Hyland, Jack, Alexander Kouker, and Dmitri Zaitsev, ‘Open Access Exchange (oaex): An Economic Model and Platform for Fundraising Open Scholarship Services’, UKSG Insights, 33 (2020) <http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.500>
- Lawson, Stuart, Jonathan Gray, and Michele Mauri, ‘Opening the Black Box of Scholarly Communication Funding: A Public Data Infrastructure for Financial Flows in Academic Publishing’, Open Library of Humanities, 2 (2016) <https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.72>
- Lewis, David W., Lori Goetsch, Diane Graves, and Mike Roy, ‘Funding Community Controlled Open Infrastructure for Scholarly Communication: The 2.5% Commitment Initiative | Lewis | College & Research Libraries News’ <https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/16902/18557> [accessed 6 March 2018]
- Look, Hugh, and Frances Pinter, ‘Open Access and Humanities and Social Science Monograph Publishing’, New Review of Academic Librarianship, 16 (2010), 90–97 <https://doi.org/10.1080/13614533.2010.512244>
- ‘‘Big Deal’ Cancellations Gain Momentum’, Inside Higher Ed, 2018 <https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/05/08/more-institutions-consider-ending-their-big-deals-publishers> [accessed 15 February 2024]
- Nabe, Jonathan, and David C. Fowler, ‘Leaving the “Big Deal”: Consequences and Next Steps’, The Serials Librarian, 62 (2012), 59–72 <https://doi.org/10.1080/0361526X.2012.652524>
- Neylon, Cameron, Rene Belsø, Magchiel Bijsterbosch, Bas Cordewener, Jérôme Foncel, Sascha Friesike, Aileen Fyfe, Neil Jacobs, Matthias Katerbow, Mikael Laakso and, Laurents Sesink, ‘Open Scholarship and the need for collective action’, Knowledge Exchange, Bristol (2019). <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3454688>
- Ottina, David, ‘From Sustainable Publishing To Resilient Communications’, TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 11 (2013), 604–13 <https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v11i2.528>
- Piwowar, Heather, Jason Priem, Vincent Larivière, Juan Pablo Alperin, Lisa Matthias, Bree Norlander, and others, ‘The State of OA: A Large-Scale Analysis of the Prevalence and Impact of Open Access Articles’, PeerJ, 6 (2018), e4375 <https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4375>
- Price, Gary, ‘University of California Libraries Launch Toolkit to Help Achieve Open Access’, LJ InfoDOCKET <https://www.infodocket.com/2018/03/21/university-of-california-libraries-launch-toolkit-to-help-achieve-open-access/> [accessed 22 March 2018]
- ‘Radical Open Access Literature – Radical Open Access’, Radical OA Collective <http://radicaloa.disruptivemedia.org.uk/resources/radical-open-access-literature/> [accessed 13 February 2018]
- Reinsfelder, Thomas L, and Caitlin A. Pike, ‘Using Library Funds to Support Open Access Publishing through Crowdfunding: Going Beyond Article Processing Charges’, Collection Management, 48 (2018), 1–12 <https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/bitstream/handle/1805/15059/Reinsfelder%20%20Pike%202018.pdf?sequence=1>
- Rentier, Bernard, ‘A fantastic move towards Open Science by the University of Lorraine (France)’, Ouvertures immédiates / Immediate openings, 2018 <https://bernardrentier.wordpress.com/2018/04/21/a-fantastic-move-towards-open-science-by-the-university-of-lorraine-france/> [accessed 26 April 2018]
- Roy, Michael, ‘Free as a Free Kitten: What Is the Price of Open?’, KEYWORDS: The Middlebury College Libraries Newsletter, 2018 <http://sites.middlebury.edu/librarynews/2018/02/23/free-as-a-free-kitten-what-is-the-price-of-open/> [accessed 6 March 2018]
- Solomon, David J, Mikael Laakso, and Bo-Christer Björk, ‘Converting Scholarly Journals to Open Access: A Review of Approaches and Experiences’, 2016 <http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:27803834> [accessed 15 February 2024]
- Suber, Peter, Open Access, Essential Knowledge Series (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012) <http://bit.ly/oa-book>
- Suri, Natasha, ‘Academic Librarian Engagement with Open Access in the UK: Support, Advocacy and Education’, unpublished Master’s dissertation, City, University of London (2018) <http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6GK0B>
- Wentzel, Annica, ‘Sweden stands up for open access – cancels agreement with Elsevier’, OpenAccess.se, 2018 <https://www.kb.se/samverkan-och-utveckling/nytt-fran-kb/nyheter-samverkan-och-utveckling/2018-05-16-sweden-stands-up-for-open-access---cancels-agreement-with-elsevier.html> [accessed 15 February 2024]
- Willinsky, John, The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship, Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2006)
If you would like to contribute suggestions to this list, please contact our Marketing Officer Paula Clemente Vega.