Retaking Responsibility for How We Communicate. A Review of Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future

" ... It is in this context that Cambridge University Press have published Martin Eve’s Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future. That a commercial publisher have chosen to publish an OA monograph on and in support of OA may surprise some readers. However – as emerges over the pages that follow – Open Access and the Humanities is no dogmatic anti-capitalist, anti-market, anti-publisher panegyric but rather, as Eve notes early on, a book written by an author who believes that ‘that the amplificatory power of good presses is real and that through this route this book will reach readers who would otherwise remain in the dark’ (6). Presses in short, still matter. And this sets the tone of Eve’s timely, critical, and important monograph ..."