tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7905259150737003860.post3487117255903190590..comments2024-03-26T14:31:39.078+00:00Comments on TVAD: Theorizing Visual Art & Design: International Open Access Week 2017Grace Lees-Maffeihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12071549746987267488noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7905259150737003860.post-67902450859760005012017-11-07T17:54:38.282+00:002017-11-07T17:54:38.282+00:00Thanks Alana. I think the distinction you make bet...Thanks Alana. I think the distinction you make between OA books and OA journal articles is a useful one. My post was based on my very mixed experience as a co-editor of an OA book. But, my experience as a reader is that I am delighted when a book I want to read is OA and therefore readily available to me, even though those of us with institutional affiliations can access some digital books freely online even if they are not OA. Not everyone who reads academic research has an institutional affiliation or library access to digital materials: I imagine that group benefits more than most from OA book publishing. I want to remain positive but I accept your critique.Grace Lees-Maffeihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12071549746987267488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7905259150737003860.post-79842889595273997382017-11-07T16:31:02.345+00:002017-11-07T16:31:02.345+00:00Thanks for sharing this blog and video about open ...Thanks for sharing this blog and video about open access. <br /><br />My own experience of open access publishing leaves me cold (as distinct from journal articles - I'm much more positive about that aspect of open access, though with major provisos). <br /><br />In my own experience of open access books, the going rate for publishing is about £6,000. Sometimes more. At the moment, this cost is usually shouldered by the authors, or editors if it's an edited volume. The research councils do not yet allow open access costs as legitimate expenditure when applying for funding, so the cost falls to individuals. <br /><br />Instead of creating deeper and richer access to publicly-funded scholarship, as was the open access movement's original goal, what has happened is that the economic risk of publishing a title has been inverted. Risk has fallen to the author, instead of the publisher. And there is no benefit for us in this new model: as you mention, having open access for books doesn't even have an observable positive impact on levels of readership. <br /><br />Open access is not not to a general audience's benefit because they are not accessing the pdfs in any great number, despite the success of tablet readers. It is not to an author's benefit because it is we who pay for publication, and it is not to scholar's benefit because we had access via libraries anyway.<br /><br />Instead of fulfilling the democratic ambitions of the open access movement, the real impact of open access has been the publishing industry movement towards the rentier capitalist model that Uber and Airbnb use (for example). <br /><br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04799603407347892473noreply@blogger.com