01301nam a22002057a 4500 9406 OCLRC 20260730103743.0 210411t xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d OCLRC Edge, Samuel.-- Open divede: critical studies on open access/ Samuel Edge. 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/jifp.v4i1.6788 Open 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. open divide, critical studies, open access, ELEC 9406 9406 0 0 0 0 LRC LRC 2026-07-30 0 2026-07-30 10:37:43 2026-07-30 ELEC