Open Access

In: Contexts / American Sociological Association: understanding people in their social worlds, Band 13, Heft 2, S. 12-14

Abstract

Librarian Jill Cirasella describes some problems with the traditional system of scholarly journal publishing and explains how scholars can make their works open access, or freely available online. She discusses some of the benefits of open access, as well as some of the challenges to achieving widespread openness.