--- layout: post status: publish published: true title: ! 'Book: Open Access and the Humanities' alias: "/2014/11/27/book-open-access-and-the-humanities" wordpress_id: 3308 wordpress_url: https://www.martineve.com/?p=3308 date: !binary |- MjAxNC0xMS0yNyAxNjoxODo1OCArMDEwMA== date_gmt: !binary |- MjAxNC0xMS0yNyAxNjoxODo1OCArMDEwMA== categories: - Academia - Publications - Output tags: - Open Access - Book comments: [] altmetric: 10.1017/CBO9781316161012 --- <p>I am extremely pleased to announce that my book, <i>Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future</i> has today been published by Cambridge University Press. The book offers a background to open access and its specifics for the humanities disciplines, as well as setting out the economics and politics of the phenomenon. It also has a very fine preface by Peter Suber! You can download the book for absolutely free (under a CC BY-SA license) at <a href="http://www.cambridge.org/martineve">the official website</a> (click the green "open access" button). You can also buy an extremely good value paperback copy, with all my royalties going to <a href="http://www.arthritisresearchuk.org">Arthritis Research UK</a>, from the <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1107097894/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=1107097894&linkCode=as2&tag=2bitpienet-21&linkId=TVNUFSG4XG3QS2HJ">usual suspects</a>. The book also has a DOI: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316161012">http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316161012</a>. You can also <a href="/images/uploads/2014/11/Eve_2014_Open-Access-and-the-Humanities.pdf">download a copy directly here</a>.</p> <p>For those who would like a taster, there's an (embarrassing -- or at least I find it so) <a href="http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2014/11/martin-paul-eve-on-open-access-and-the-humanities/">video interview that I did</a>, also available on the Cambridge website.</p> <p>Also perhaps of interest may be <a href="http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2014/11/07/book-review-open-access-and-the-humanities-contexts-controversies-and-the-future-by-martin-eve/">Jonathan Gray's review of the volume</a> for the LSE Review of Books. Gray writes:</p> <blockquote><p>Eve’s book gives a synoptic and multi-layered overview of many of the different factors at play in scholarly communication in the humanities, and offers valuable suggestions about how a transition to open access in the humanities might take better account of these factors, bringing much needed critical and constructive reflection to the contemporary pursuit of a long held dream. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of open access and scholarly communication in the humanities, and a rallying call for more researchers to join those working to shape this future.</p></blockquote> <p>I hope you enjoy reading it!</p>