Opinion Paper on Open Access Opportunities for the Humanities (November 2013)

This Opinion Paper produced by the Science Europe Scientific Committee for the Humanities embraces Open Access as the way forward for Humanities disciplines. It has been published on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Berlin Declaration and the accompanying celebratory event, organised by the Max Planck Society on 19–20 November 2013. It encourages the Humanities research community to engage with the new possibilities that Open Access can offer, and at the same time calls on research funding and performing organisations to work together to tackle the specificities and remaining potential obstacles…