Not Just Monetary: Arts and Humanities Scholars’ Perspectives on the Costs of Open Access Publishing
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
College & Research Libraries
Publication Date
5-2026
Keywords
open access, publishing, scholarly communication, self-archiving
Abstract
Bibliometric and survey-based studies have documented different open access (OA) publishing practices among scholars across academic disciplines. This article reports on interviews conducted with arts and humanities scholars from the United States and explores how OA intersects with their research and publication practices. Beyond the considerable financial costs of OA publishing, findings demonstrate that arts and humanities scholars contend with opportunity, reputational, equity, and time costs as they consider and engage with OA publishing. The authors discuss the implications of these costs for librarians who facilitate the dissemination, discovery, and preservation of arts and humanities scholarship.
Funding Source
This research was funded by an Illinois State University - Milner Library University Research Grant.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
DOI
10.5860/crl.87.3.266
Recommended Citation
Skaggs, L., Scott, R.E., and Cilento, C. (2026). Not Just Monetary: Arts and Humanities Scholars’ Perspectives on the Costs of Open Access Publishing. College & Research Libraries 87(3): 266-298. https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.87.3.266
Comments
This article was first published in College & Research Libraries (2026): https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.87.3.266