Getting Academic Research into the Public Sphere: The Rundown on Repositories | JustPublics@365

"A big focus of JustPublics@365 is getting scholarship into the public sphere. But, how do scholars do that? What, precisely, is the mechanism that academics are supposed to use to share their work with a wider audience? Open access journals — that is, journals that make their articles freely available online, immediately and permanently — are certainly one way to do this. You may have heard the buzz about the Nobel prize winner who publicly rejected 'the tyranny of the luxury journals' and committed himself to supporting, as an author and an editor, open access journals ..."