Impact of Social Sciences – 2016 in review: round-up of our top posts on open access

List of the London School of Economics and Political Science "The Impact Blog's" top posts on open access for the year 2016.

1. Libraries and Open Journal Systems: Hosting and facilitating the creation of Open Access scholarship

2. High prices to access scholarly research could drive developing country researchers to use pirate sites like SciHub

3. Enabling authors to pay for open access – The Gold Open Access market and the role of an institutional central fund.

4. How do students access the resources they need? Survey finds only one in five obtain all resources legally

5. Announcing OpenCon 2016: Catalyzing collective action for a more open scholarly system

6. Are the ‘gatekeepers’ becoming censors? On editorial processes and the interests of the scholarly community

7. SAGE Open five years on: Lessons learned and future thoughts on open access in humanities and social sciences

8. Given frustrations with academic structures, how can we build a more human-centered open science?

9. What it means to be Green: exploring publishers’ changing approaches to Green open access

    

10. The impact of article processing charges on libraries and what is being done to help