A look at the Open Library of Humanities - News - Illinois State

The Open Access movement is lowering barriers not just to reading scholarship, but also to publishing as well. Some paywalled journals allow their authors to publish their research as open access, but only for a fee which can sometimes be in the thousands of dollars. Publishing entails costs, and fortunately members of the Open Access movement have organized to make it easier for journals to publish articles without charging readers fees or charging authors publication fees.