How We Got to Open Access: An Activists Tale - Cornell

"Open access advocates press scholars to broaden their audiences, to partner with non-academics and activists, to improve the public good. While the rise of the internet expands reader horizons, what happened in science, in librarianship, and on the world stage that paved the road to open access? Polly Thistlethwaite, co-author of “Being a Scholar in the Digital Era” (Policy Press, 2016), examines these landscapes to deepen understandings of and imperatives for open access.  "