What is open access? Nick Shockey and Jonathan Eisen take us through the world of open access publishing and explain just what it's all about.
"One of the clearest, concise, and entertaining explanations of open access I have seen. Check-out this animated comic, Open Access Explained! narrated
by open access advocates Nick Shockey, Director of Student Advocacy at
SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and
Jonathan Eisen, Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology at
University of California, Davis on the PHD Comics website.
The piece focuses on open access to publically-funded scientific
research. I wished for more of a nod to Humanities scholarship and the
unique challenges of our disciplines relating to open access. But the
explanation still translates very well. For example, this excerpt—I
believe it is Jonathan Eisen speaking—could just as easily be applied to
Humanities scholarship:.:
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