S2 Ep2: Open Access Publishing

In this second episode of season 2, Matthew Sillence talks with Sean Andersson, Dr Alison Barker and Dr Sean Seeger about Open Access (OA) publishing for books and articles. Through our conversations, we unpack Green, Gold and Diamond OA routes, Creative Commons licences, image permissions, university OA funding, and how postgraduate and early‑career researchers can make their work more visible and accessible.[00:00-04:15] – What is Open Access? Green, Gold, Diamond routes and CC licences.[04:15-16:08] – OA at Essex: funds, repositories, and read‑and‑publish deals (with Sean Andersson).[16:08-31.20] – Turning an art history PhD into an OA monograph and handling image permissions (with Alison Barker)[31:20-35:38] – Images, third‑party copyright and choosing CC BY‑NC‑ND.[35:38–43:51] – OA monographs, utopian studies and interdisciplinarity (with Sean Seeger).Links- Creative Commons Licenses- Open Access Publishing - University of Essex- Barker, A.C. (2025). The Dissemination of Saint George in Early Modern Art (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003454731- Seeger, S. (2025). Utopian Variations. Utopia in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture. Peter Lang Verlag. https://doi.org/10.3726/b22926Licence- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0Credits Music by Matthew Sillence.