Open Access (OA) is a world-wide movement which aims to make peer-reviewed scholarly research and publications freely available online. It also incorporates different political positions ranging from neoliberal support for research as innovation that is supposed to strengthen the economy, to...

The first in the series was recorded in front of a live audience on 1 October 2013 and features Professor Sir Adrian Smith, Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, in conversation with John Gill, Editor of Times Higher Education.