Information Standards Quarterly, Summer 2014 -- Open Access Infrastructure

Special issue on Open Access Infrastructure. 2013 seemed to have been a watershed for open access. Driven by a number of policy announcements from funding bodies and governments worldwide, the question is no longer whether open access will or should happen, but rather how will it be implemented in a sustainable way. This articles in this issue contain a wealth of insights from a wide variety of viewpoints—publishers, funders, universities, intermediaries, standards bodies, and open access experts on OA infrastructure and where we are today, what the challenges are, available routes to overcoming those challenges, and some of the initiatives that have been put in place to overcome these challenges.