Open Access and monographs

Abstract

UKeiG's inaugural Insight column for CILIP's Information Professional magazine was published in March 2023 and featured our late Chair David Ball writing about Open Access Monographs. To honour his memory and celebrate his contribution to the library, information and knowledge sector, we share it here.

David wrote and presented extensively on the emergence on OS/OA, Open Monographs, Open Data and Open Peer Review. He emphasised that this developing paradigm goes way beyond STEM subjects and impacts on social science, arts and humanities. ‘The concept of Open Access to research outputs has been common currency for many years. The rapid growth of the Internet has made different publication models easily available. More recent thinking has expanded the concept of openness even further, to Open Science, which aims to transform science by making research more open, global, collaborative, creative and closer to society. This approach is being embraced by all academic disciplines. The shift is extremely important for the development and exploitation of research, and hence for the professionals who support it.’