Not Just Monetary: Arts and Humanities Scholars’ Perspectives on the Costs of Open Access Publishing

Abstract

Bibliometric and survey-based studies have documented different open access (OA)
publishing practices among scholars across academic disciplines. This article reports
on interviews conducted with arts and humanities scholars from the United States,
and it explores how OA intersects with their research and publication practices.
Beyond the considerable financial costs of OA publishing, findings demonstrate that
arts and humanities scholars contend with opportunity, reputational, equity, and
time costs as they consider and engage with OA publishing. The authors discuss the
implications of these costs for librarians who facilitate the dissemination, discovery,
and preservation of arts and humanities scholarship