Wednesday 26^th October

12.00 – 1.30pm, Open Learning Space (ground floor, Library)

A seminar for researchers in the Social Sciences and Humanities

With the announcement of SAGE Open last November and its launch this Spring, SAGE was the first major publisher to offer a new platform to support open access publishing in the social and behavioural sciences and the humanities.

 In this session we will explore:

• how ready the social sciences are for OA
• the future of OA as a sustainable business model
• where, how and if ‘author pays’ can be funded in the social sciences compared to STM
• the future of the single article entity and its platform as the primary means of disseminating and creating scholarly knowledge

Speakers: David Ross (Journals publisher, engineering, SAGE)

                 Lucy Robinson (Journals publisher, social science, SAGE)