[BOAI] Re: Is a Different OA Strategy Needed for Social Sciences and Humanities? (No)

[Gary Hall]

> Books being a very important means of research result dissemination in 
> the social sciences and the humanities (the "dominant symbolic 
> currency", in Jean-Claude Guédon's parlance), something should be done 
> as well towards OA. The late linguist Robert de Beaugrande posted all 
> his books OA on his own repository when he was still alive. He might 
> have reached an agreement with his publishers. I don't know, but this 
> is what will have to be done sooner or later for students and 
> researchers in these fields to have free access to knowledge which is 
> not only to be found in scientific journals but also in books.

Just to add, a list of publishers of OA books - many of them operating 
in the humanities and social sciences - can be found here:
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Publishers_of_OA_books

Gary

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