Document Type
Article
Publication Title
College & Research Libraries
Publication Date
11-2025
Keywords
Open Access, Humanities, Scholarly Communication, Publishing, Research and Grant Support, Secondary Data Analysis
Abstract
Several studies have noted that humanists have not been as quick or enthusiastic in their adoption of Open Access (OA) as their colleagues in other disciplines. This article leverages the Ithaka S+R US 2021 Faculty Survey to provide contextualized analysis of the OA and Open Education Resources (OER) preferences of humanities scholars, as well as some practices related to OA and OER, relative to their colleagues in other disciplines. Findings suggest that although humanists do stand apart in many OA preferences, the small effect sizes render these differences less important than previously suspected. The implications of these findings are considered alongside the lower rates of OA publication among humanists.
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DOI
10.5860/crl.86.6.902
Recommended Citation
Rachel E. Scott and Ana Dubnjakovic. "More Alike than Not: The Open Access Preferences of Humanities Scholars." College & Research Libraries 86, no. 6 (2025): 902-915. https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.86.6.902.
Comments
First published in College & Research Libraries 86, no. 6 (November 2025): 902-915. https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.86.6.902.