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Open Access and Sustainability – Just How Solid is the Current Landscape?

Seminar 3: Open Access and Sustainability – Just How Solid is the Current Landscape?

Open access has been with us for at least fifteen years and yet still seems to be in a state of flux. Different regions of the world seem to be coalescing around different kinds of OA: gold in Europe and green elsewhere. Of late there has been talk of platinum or diamond OA. But what is the long-term sustainability of these models? Is the hybrid journal model going to stick or are we at a transition point to where most journals will flip to an entirely OA model? And what about copyright and the resistance of non-STEM fields to taking up OA? And of course books, what models have emerged in the realm of OA books and are they sustainable? This seminar will tackle these issues with an eye towards seeing how sustainable these models are and if they are transitory where they might lead us in the immediate future.