This is a huge question, and there are so many complex issues. Much has been achieved, but there is still so much to do. In my world –  I say this because awareness, adoption and advocacy is uneven across libraries and other stakeholders – open access is a new normal, but it took a long time and a lot of education, outreach, and advocacy work to…[Read more]

I became involved with OA books when I was the Coordinator of the Humanities Collection Group (Huma) at the UC Santa Barbara Library. Open access publishing and scholarly communication librarianship were just beginning to trend in academic libraries.  It was 2009, and it was mostly about journal publishing in STEM fields.  I asked Huma members (…[Read more]