Academic Publishing and Open Access : Costs, benefits and options for publishing research

May, Christopher (2020) Academic Publishing and Open Access : Costs, benefits and options for publishing research. Politics, 40 (1). pp. 120-135. ISSN 0263-3957

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Abstract

This article briefly sets out a political economy of academic publishing, exploring what the costs and benefits of this model are/were for the academic community. It then moves to explore forms of open access publication available to the social science (politics and international relations) community in the United Kingdom and beyond. The article concludes by asking why (given its likely advantages), the open access model is not ubiquitous and suggests that the future of publication lies in the hands of early career researchers.

Item Type:

Journal Article

Journal or Publication Title:

Politics

Additional Information:

The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Politics, 40 (1), 2020, © SAGE Publications Ltd, 2019 by SAGE Publications Ltd at the Politics page: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/pol on SAGE Journals Online: http://journals.sagepub.com/

Uncontrolled Keywords:

/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300

Subjects:

?? open accessacademic publishingpoliticsinternational relationsacademic literaciesprimitive accumulationpolitical economysocial sciences(all)political science and international relations ??

Departments:

Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences > Politics & International Relations (Merged into PPR 2010-08-01)

ID Code:

134708

Deposited By:

ep_importer_pure

Deposited On:

10 Jul 2019 15:45

Refereed?:

Yes

Published?:

Published

Last Modified:

09 Jan 2024 00:23

URI:

https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/134708