Impact of Social Sciences – Institutional repositories have work to do if they’re going to solve the access problem

"The Green Open Access route, which encourages the use of institutional repositories for depositing manuscripts as drafts or after a publisher’s embargo period, seems to many in the Humanities and Social Sciences like a more agreeable way to widen access to scholarly work. Mike Taylor is not convinced that the Green route is able to adequately address the key concerns of the access problem. He outlines five limitations that Green access will have to address if institutional repositories are to become truly useful...."