Open Access in Theory and Practice The Theory-Practice Relationship and Openness

• Main Authors: Pinfield, Stephen, Wakeling, Simon, Bawden, David, Robinson, Lyn
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2020; Taylor and Francis; University of Sheffield; Taylor & Francis
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Critical Studies on Open Access
• Subjects: Academia; Academic; Access; Article Processing Charges; Boundary Spanning; Communication in learning and scholarship; Cultural and media studies; Digital & Online Resources; Dissemination; DOAJ; Economics, Finance, Business and Management; Education; Formal Academic Literature; General libraries; Gold OA; Green OA; Higher Education; Higher education, tertiary education; History; History and Archaeology; Industry and industrial studies; Information; Innovation Diffusion Theory; Institutional Repository Development; KNTP1 Publishing and book trade; KNTP2 News media and journalism; Language Arts; Language Arts & Disciplines; Li Literature; Library & Information Science; Library and information sciences / Museology; Media studies; Media, entertainment, information and communication industries; Nonfiction; OA Development; Open; Open access; Open Access Institutional Repositories; Open access publishing; Practice; Publishing; Publishing Industry; Publishing industry and journalism; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Scholarly Communications Community; SciELO; social sciences; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Socio-Technical Interaction Networks; Theory; Theory Practice Gap; Theory Practice Relationship; UTAUT; Solow Swan Model; Formal Academic Literature; Boundary Spanning; Article Processing Charges; Gold Open Access; OA Environment; OA Advocate; Open Access Institutional Repositories; Green Open Access; Institutional Repository Development; DOAJ; Gold OA; Innovation Diffusion Theory; Open Access Publishing; Scholarly Communications Community; Disciplinary Specific Theories; OA Development; Theory Practice Gap; SciELO; Li Department; Socio-Technical Interaction Networks; UTAUT; Green OA; Theory Practice Relationship; Li Literature
• ISBN: 1000094839; 9781000094831; 9780367524258; 0367227851; 0367524252; 9780367227852; 9780429276842; 1000094898; 1000094863; 9781000094893; 9781000094862; 0429276842
• DOI: 10.4324/9780429276842

Open Access in Theory and Practice investigates the theory-practice relationship in the domain of open access publication and dissemination of research outputs. Drawing on detailed analysis of the literature and current practice in OA, as well as data collected in detailed interviews with practitioners, policymakers, and researchers, the book discusses what constitutes ‘theory’, and how the role of theory is perceived by both theorists and practitioners. Exploring the ways theory and practice have interacted in the development of OA, the authors discuss what this reveals about the nature of the OA phenomenon itself and the theory-practice relationship. Open Access in Theory and Practice contributes to a better understanding of OA and, as such, should be of great interest to academics, researchers, and students working in the fields of information science, publishing studies, science communication, higher education policy, business, and economics. The book also makes an important contribution to the debate of the relationship between theory and practice in information science, and more widely across different fields of the social sciences and humanities