Comments on: Open Access and the Humanities http://gainesville2014.thatcamp.org/2014/04/14/open-access-and-the-humanities/ April 24-25, 2014, at the University of Florida Thu, 24 Apr 2014 13:17:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 By: Christine Fruin http://gainesville2014.thatcamp.org/2014/04/14/open-access-and-the-humanities/#comment-2701 Thu, 17 Apr 2014 12:57:14 +0000 http://gainesville2014.thatcamp.org/?p=347#comment-2701 As further evidence of the conflict between open access and the humanities, a report from the British Academy today claiming that the RCUK open access policy poses “serious dangers for the international standing of UK research in the humanities.”

Times Higher Education story: www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/british-academy-fears-for-humanities-in-open-access-world/2012729.article

For the full report: www.britac.ac.uk/openaccess/

]]> By: Josh http://gainesville2014.thatcamp.org/2014/04/14/open-access-and-the-humanities/#comment-2668 Wed, 16 Apr 2014 13:25:35 +0000 http://gainesville2014.thatcamp.org/?p=347#comment-2668 Miller, you raise some interesting points and questions. I have some ideas that address some of that (prestige, impact outside Ivory Tower), but I hope other ideas and perspectives emerge from this talk. See you in the session!

]]> By: Josh http://gainesville2014.thatcamp.org/2014/04/14/open-access-and-the-humanities/#comment-2665 Wed, 16 Apr 2014 10:55:58 +0000 http://gainesville2014.thatcamp.org/?p=347#comment-2665 Hi Sophia. Thanks for the supportive words. I hope you’ll join the discussion!

]]> By: Miller Krause http://gainesville2014.thatcamp.org/2014/04/14/open-access-and-the-humanities/#comment-2661 Wed, 16 Apr 2014 05:32:51 +0000 http://gainesville2014.thatcamp.org/?p=347#comment-2661 This is definitely an overdue conversation and an important one, and I’m glad that you tagged this with the realpolitik label “Tenure and Promotion.” I’d like to hear what the various stakeholders’ perspectives are on the apparent prestige gap between open-access and traditional journals; I’ve heard scholars say that the open-access journals tend to lack the prestige necessary for progressing in their careers. This seems especially so in Europe, where the ERIH has institutionalized prestige by ranking journals, with most of the OA ones stuck at level C/NAT, which ambitious scholars tend to avoid except for niche studies. At the same time, the paywall of traditional publishing acts as a barrier keeping (the best, given prestige factors) scholarship from reaching its fullest potential for impact outside the Ivory Tower, since humanity can’t afford to access the Humanities. Is there a way to leverage the benefits of wider accessibility to raise the prestige of open access publishing?

]]> By: Sophia K. Acord http://gainesville2014.thatcamp.org/2014/04/14/open-access-and-the-humanities/#comment-2650 Tue, 15 Apr 2014 20:03:09 +0000 http://gainesville2014.thatcamp.org/?p=347#comment-2650 Thanks so much for proposing this session. OA and copyright are foundational issues in DH and humanities writ large. Long overdue conversation.

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