01253nam a22001817a 45000010005000000030006000050050017000110080041000280400010000691000020000792450065000992600010001645000048001745200793002226530017010156530022010326530017010549406OCLRC20260730103743.0210411t        xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aOCLRC  aEdge, Samuel.--  aOpen divede:bcritical studies on open access/cSamuel Edge.  c2019.  aDOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/jifp.v4i1.6788  aOpen access is frequently a topic of conversation in library and information studies courses. Usually imbued with hints of social justice, progressivism, and equality, professors and students alike often point to open access as something that librarianship �got right.� On a personal level, while working with document delivery in a large biomedical library, I became an enthusiastic supporter of open access articles and journals that allowed me to save staff time and deliver content to our patrons more expeditiously. After reading Open Divide: Critical Studies on Open Access, my relationship with open access is no longer quite so simple. Open Divide lays the concept of open access bare, making note of its benefits, but also clearly exposing its flaws, faults, and corruptions.  aopen divide,  acritical studies,  aopen access,