"The Door's Open, But the Ride Ain't Free." How Open Access Initiatives Are Democratizing the Humanities
Location
Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
20-9-2016 1:00 PM
Description
While digitization, online access, search engines and other technologies have enabled unprecedented access to the world’s printed knowledge, old guard business models and licensing practices have become the true gatekeepers. Academic libraries spend millions of dollars making digital resources like Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) and Early English Books Online (EEBO) available to their students and faculty. Because of the high cost of these and other resources, many libraries are unable to provide access to critical research material to their communities, effectively closing the door to higher levels of scholarship to many around the world.
Open access initiatives, which began in the STEM disciplines where the yearly cost of a single journal can exceed the price of a shiny new BMW, have exploded in the humanities. Peggy Glahn will lift the veil on the costs associated with commercial resources and will explore how the leading open access initiatives in the humanities are dramatically reducing costs to libraries while ensuring every scholar has access to valuable research material.
Recommended Citation
Glahn, Peggy, ""The Door's Open, But the Ride Ain't Free." How Open Access Initiatives Are Democratizing the Humanities" (2016). Humanities Symposium. 23.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2016/2016/23
"The Door's Open, But the Ride Ain't Free." How Open Access Initiatives Are Democratizing the Humanities
Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094
While digitization, online access, search engines and other technologies have enabled unprecedented access to the world’s printed knowledge, old guard business models and licensing practices have become the true gatekeepers. Academic libraries spend millions of dollars making digital resources like Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) and Early English Books Online (EEBO) available to their students and faculty. Because of the high cost of these and other resources, many libraries are unable to provide access to critical research material to their communities, effectively closing the door to higher levels of scholarship to many around the world.
Open access initiatives, which began in the STEM disciplines where the yearly cost of a single journal can exceed the price of a shiny new BMW, have exploded in the humanities. Peggy Glahn will lift the veil on the costs associated with commercial resources and will explore how the leading open access initiatives in the humanities are dramatically reducing costs to libraries while ensuring every scholar has access to valuable research material.
Comments
Convocation Credit: Society and the Arts and Sciences