The Impact of Open Access on Teaching—How Far Have We Come?
« This article seeks to understand how far the United Kingdom higher education (UK HE) sector has progressed towards open access (OA) availability of the scholarly literature it requires to support courses of study. It uses Google Scholar, Unpaywall and Open Access Button to identify OA copies of a random sample of articles copied under the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) HE Licence to support teaching. The quantitative data analysis is combined with interviews of, and a workshop with, HE practitioners to investigate four research questions. (…) »
source > mdpi.com, Elizabeth Gadd, Chris Morrison, Jane Secker, 1 août 2019