Open Access in the Social Sciences and Humanities
Social Sciences

Open Access in the Social Sciences and Humanities


There is a wonderful book by Martin Paul Eve:
Open Access and the HumanitiesContexts, Controversies and the Future

Just click on the open access button to get a highly elaborated overview of the many factors that co-shape scholarly communication and publishing practices in the humanities.

The main focus is on the transition to- and reflection of open access strategies, all of this relevant also for the social sciences in general!









- Open Access, Science, Society, Democracy And The Digital Divide
Sociological implications of scientific publishing: Open access, science, society, democracy and the digital divideby Ulrich Herb at FirstMonday This article critically approaches several claims underpinning open access from a sociological perspective...

- De Gruyter ? Traditional Scholarly Publisher?s Shift Towards Open Access. The Facts Behind The Numbers | Open Science
 Source: http://openscience.com/de-gruyter-traditional-scholarly-publishers-shift-towards-open-access-the-facts-behind-the-numbers/ DE GRUYTER ? Traditional Scholarly Publisher?s Shift Towards Open Access. The Facts Behind the Numbers ...

- Exposing Your Research - James Hardiman Library - Nui Galway
Source: http://www.library.nuigalway.ie/researchsupport/publishingyourresearch/exposingyourresearch/ Exposing your ResearchThe visibility and exposure of your research is influenced by many factors.  Selecting where to publish is one of the...

- Maximize Impact - Research And Scholarship Impact Metrics - Research Guides At Case Western Reserve University: Kelvin Smith Library
Source: http://researchguides.case.edu/c.php?g=17808&p=99988 Maximize ImpactThere are three key factors that can help in increasing the research impact: VISIBILITY - increased visibility means larger audience   write to be found: write...

- The Open Access Citation Advantage Service « Sparc Europe
 Source: http://sparceurope.org/oaca/ The Open Access Citation Advantage Service The OpCit project has for many years kept up to date a list of studies on whether or not there is a citation advantage for Open Access articles. That...



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