Tag Archives: open access
Punk Sociology…chapter 1 is now open access
Chapter 1 of my forthcoming book Punk Sociology is now available open access. The chapter (and book’s contents page) is available here and the publisher site is here. This chapter is probably the most conventional bit of the book, in that it … Continue reading
The first issue of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies is now open access
The first issue of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies is now available open access. This includes my piece Unpicking the Musical City.
The special issue on ‘Field Analysis in Cultural Sociology’ is currently open access
The special issue of Cultural Sociology on ‘Field Analysis in Cultural Sociology‘ edited by Mike Savage and Elizabeth B. Silva is currently available open access. This includes all of the articles in the special issue. My piece on ‘Genre, Boundary … Continue reading
Antipode make their book reviews open access
Antipode have announced that from now on their book reviews will be open access on their website, rather than being in the journal. The journal Society and Space also has a similar arrangement. This seems to be working well. Society … Continue reading
Three pieces on open access
The LSE blog has recently published three pieces on open access publishing (this is a debate that is likely to rumble on): The first focuses on the limitations of institutional repositories. The second focuses on the myths around Creative Commons. … Continue reading
Another open access paper added…
I’ve uploaded the below open access piece to the Open Access and Audio Materials section of the blog: Beer, D. (2012) ‘Open Access and Academic Publishing: Some lessons from music culture‘, Political Geography 31(8): 479-480.
The open access debate continues…
I’ve posted a few things about the open access debate in the past. The debate seems to be picking up momentum. The blog The Disorder of Things has an interesting and detailed response to the attempt to structurally impose open … Continue reading
Open access and music
My short guest editorial on ‘Open access and academic publishing: some lessons from music culture’ has now been published in Political Geography. I’ve posted about this before with a link to an open access early version of the article. There … Continue reading
An open access debate about open access
I’ve mentioned here before the debate about open access publishing that has been going in the the pages of the journal Political Geography. I’m fortunate to have a piece in the debate, which is proving to be lively. I’ve just … Continue reading
Publishing and the problems of sharing: open access and music cultures
Stuart Elden has just posted a couple of short pieces that both reflect on the problems of free downloading in publishing. The first uses music downloading as a starting point, and the second responds to some criticisms of a specific … Continue reading
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