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    Open Access and the humanities: contexts, controversies and the future

    Eve, Martin Paul (2014) Open Access and the humanities: contexts, controversies and the future. In: Five Colleges Digital Humanities Seminar, 2 Oct 2014, UMASS, Amherst, U.S.. (Unpublished)

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    Abstract

    AMHERST, Mass. ? The UMass Amherst Libraries host a talk, ?Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future,? by Dr. Martin Eve, on Thursday, October 2, 2014, 3:00 p.m., in Room 2601, on Floor 26, in the W.E.B. Du Bois Library, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Open Access (OA), the notion that research work should be free to access and re-use, is a theoretically simple concept that has become mired in practical complexities and controversies. It is also, however, an aspect of contemporary research practice that is gaining worldwide traction and one that no contemporary scholar can afford to ignore, regardless of his or her discipline. In this talk, Dr. Martin Eve will set out the background to open access, the specific challenges faced by the humanities and the potential future solutions. What, exactly, do the terms ?gold?, ?green?, ?libre? and ?gratis? mean? How can OA be affordable for the humanities? What are the political motivations for its implementation? What is open licensing? And will open access really happen?

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    Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Lecture)
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
    Research Centres and Institutes: Contemporary Literature, Centre for
    Depositing User: Martin Eve
    Date Deposited: 06 Oct 2015 09:54
    Last Modified: 09 Aug 2023 12:36
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/12168

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