Open Access in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Canada: A Conversation

By Canadian Federation for the Humanities And Social Sciences (federationhss.ca)

Over the last decade, Open Access (OA) has gained support among researchers and policymakers, with increasingly vocal advocacy for free online access to scholarly work. While incorporating Open Access policies in Canada reflects a rapidly changing…

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Over the last decade, Open Access (OA) has gained support among researchers and policymakers, with increasingly vocal advocacy for free online access to scholarly work. While incorporating Open Access policies in Canada reflects a rapidly changing publishing landscape, with the rise of digitalization and the pressing need to broaden access, the barriers to making Open Access a widespread reality are many and complex.

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Original publication: Canadian Federation For The Humanities And Social Sciences. "Open Access in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Canada: A Conversation." Open Scholarship Policy Observatory, 17 May 2023, https://ospolicyobservatory.uvic.ca/open-access-in-the-humanities-and-social-sciences-in-canada-a-conversation/.

This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of the Open Scholarship Policy Observatory. All materials are published under a Creative Commons ShareAlike 4.0 International license (CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED). The full license description can be found on https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/.

 

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