Not everyone can afford open access monographs | Wonkhe

Adding requirements for open access books and chapters to REF will massively increase costs – and there is no additional funding to cover these. Dawn Hibbert asks for a rethink

Some interesting thoughts about this challenge. You can agree with the overall idea, that research should be made more easily available to anyone interested, and still think the current plans are seriously flawed.

Update 21 May 2024: there is another piece about this question at the LSE blog – The REF consultation shows the need for a more plural perspective on OA Books