open access & the humanities

Open Access & the Humanities

Alex WatkinsArt & Architecture Librarian

CU Boulder Libraries

If there’s no journal crisis, do we need open access?

Pay-walls Create a divide between Western scholars and the rest of the world

At Exactly the Time when we are trying to make

humanities scholarship more global

OA is becoming the Global standard

Pay Walls create a divide between Academia and the

Public

Which contributes to questions like what is the value of the humanities?

There are benefits to humanities scholarship from tearing down pay-walls

So we have to remove the barriers to Open Access in the Humanities

Images rights are one major impediment

Have to effectively use fair use

Is scholarly use transformative use?

Free the Public Domain

“All images supplied by the Bridgeman Art Library are copyrighted photographs. The Bridgeman Art Library either owns the copyright in the photograph or acts as the authorised agent of the copyright holder. A licence must be obtained from the Library before any reproduction is made or this will constitute an infringement of copyright. It is important to note that images can contain multiple copyrights.”

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alexander.watkins@colorado.edu

Photo Credits• Barber, Matt. Great Wall of China, October 21, 2009.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/matt512/4065627169/.• Gao, Jialiang. The old Campus of the National University of San Antonio Abad at

Cusco, Peru, January, 2006. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Universidad_Nacional_de_San_Antonio_Abad_del_Cusco_Peru.jpg

• Hough, Josh. Bethlehem Checkpoint, December 13, 2006. http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshhough/321999050/.

• Ammon. Berlin Wall, January 1, 1990. http://www.flickr.com/photos/authenticfoto/3545761886/.

• Thiémard, Raphaël. Berlin 1989, Fall Der Mauer, Chute Du Mur, November 1, 1989. http://www.flickr.com/photos/vivaopictures/3403855791/.

• Liu, Min. New York City, August 13, 2006. http://www.flickr.com/photos/minliu/331601763/.

• Warman, Lara. Wall Adam Goldsworthy, November 13, 2011. http://www.flickr.com/photos/war_man/6344808703/.