Yesterday’s post introduced the context of neoliberalism as the backdrop of change in higher education. Here Martin Eve provides further clarification of the neoliberal context, linking the impact agenda under the Research Excellence Framework as a key trait of a privatised market. But Martin is not convinced that open access also fall under this commodification paradigm but rather sees OA as more about resisting the pervasive privatisation of knowledge.
Open Access, the Impact Agenda and resistance to the neoliberal paradigm | Impact of Social Sciences.