Open access: brought to book at last?

"It would be easy to think of monographs as the scholarly output that the open-access movement forgot.Mandates for free online access are popping up all around the world, but most relate exclusively to journal articles. A good example is Research Councils UK’s new open-access policy, launched in April and inspired by the Finch report published last year. That report dismissed monographs as too difficult a nut to crack in the absence of “further experimentation”."