Open access to criminological knowledge: an update

Matt Ashby
UCL Department of Security and Crime Science

“Members … are committed to free and open access to knowledge, to public discourse on findings, and to sharing sources of those findings whenever possible”

– American Society of Criminology/Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences

“researchers should promote free and independent inquiry into criminological matters and unrestricted dissemination of criminological knowledge”

– British Society of Criminology

Summary

• Criminology publishing is getting more open, but most papers are still closed
• Some journals are lagging behind
• US criminologists are a particular outlier

These slides:
bit.ly/esc-oa-2024

 

How to make your work open access:
bit.ly/stop-hiding-your-research