Goldsmiths conference: 'OA mandates will damage academic freedom' | The Bookseller

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Summary:

"Academics in the arts, humanities and social sciences (AHSS) voiced concerns that Open Access mandates will damage academic freedom at a conference held at Goldsmiths, University of London, on Friday (24th May). The conference heard that widening the funder Open Access mandates developed for STEM subjects to cover the humanities fields would actively prevent some researchers from publishing, because they would not have access to funds.

A push has been initiated in the UK to require all monographs to be published Open Access to be eligible for the 2027 Research Excellence Framework (REF). Meanwhile under international initiative Plan S, all government-funded research will have to be published Open Access from 2020.

Sarah Kember, professor of new technologies of communication at Goldsmiths and director of Goldsmiths Press, suggested that funder-mandated OA publishing - as opposed to scholar-led OA initiatives such as Goldsmiths Press - could narrow the range of work appearing and damage diversity. ..."

Link:

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/academic-freedom-concerns-raised-over-humanities-oa-mandates-1011341

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Date tagged:

05/29/2019, 09:46

Date published:

05/29/2019, 05:46